Chaucer's "House of Fame" and the "Ovide moralisé."

Author / Editor
Delany, Sheila.

Title
Chaucer's "House of Fame" and the "Ovide moralisé."

Published
Comparative Literature 20 (1968): 254-64.

Description
Shows that Chaucer's depiction of Fame in HF has several parallels with the depiction of her in the French "Ovide moralisé": use of anaphora in amplification of Ovid's original, Fame's role of judge and her "aura of authority," and overt concern with the "problem of conflicting authorities."

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