How Marcia Lost Her Skin: A Note on Chaucer's Mythology

Author / Editor
David, Alfred.

Title
How Marcia Lost Her Skin: A Note on Chaucer's Mythology

Published
Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 19-29.

Description
Identifies a source for HF 1229-32, where Marsyas is gendered female: a group of mansucripts of the "Roman de la Rose" that interpolate a comic account "in which Apollo flays a female satyr called 'Marse'."

Alternative Title
Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations