A New Chaucer Analogue: The Legend of Ugolino.
- Author / Editor
- Robbins, Rossell Hope.
A New Chaucer Analogue: The Legend of Ugolino.
- Published
- Trivium 2 (1967): 1-15.
- Description
- Presents a late-fifteenth-century analogue to Chaucer's account of Ugolino, titling it "The Legend of Ugolino," found in MS. 6 of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. Comments on the relation of the "Legend" to Chaucer's version, particularly is techniques of expansion (from Chaucer's 56 lines to 266) and describes the language, style, and manuscript context of the poem, printed here for the first time.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations