'Ars Simia Naturae' and Chaucer's 'House of Fame'
- Author / Editor
- Delany, Sheila.
'Ars Simia Naturae' and Chaucer's 'House of Fame'
- Published
- English Language Notes 11 (1973): 1-5.
- Description
- Studies the "ape-image" in HF 1212, identifying analogues in Dante's "Inferno" and in Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose," and observing that the topos poses the "difficulty of distinguishing true from false, original from imposture," and art from imitation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Style and Versification
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations