Reframing the 'Metamorphoses': The Enabling of Political Allegory in Late Medieval Ovidian Narrative

Author / Editor
Gerber, Amanda J.

Title
Reframing the 'Metamorphoses': The Enabling of Political Allegory in Late Medieval Ovidian Narrative

Published
DAI A73.06 (2012): n.p.

Description
Proposes that Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and other contemporaries may have viewed Ovid's work not merely as a source of exempla, but as a rhetorical model for subversive stories.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations