How Marcia Lost Her Skin: A Note on Chaucer's Mythology
- Author / Editor
- David, Alfred.
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