The Medieval Ceyx and Alcyone: Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' XI, 407-750 and Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Martin, Joseph B., III.
The Medieval Ceyx and Alcyone: Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' XI, 407-750 and Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- DAI 33.11 (1973): 6318A.
- Description
- Surveys criticism that considers the Ceyx and Alcyone story in BD, exegetical readings in particular, and edits a version of the tale found in fourteenth-century Ovidian manuscripts available in Chaucer's England, with full apparatus and with information about the various commentaries, especially that of Pierre Bersuire.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations