Ovid and the Canterbury Tales.
- Author / Editor
- Hoffman, Richard L.
Ovid and the Canterbury Tales.
- Published
- [Philadelphia]: [University of Pennsylvania Press,] 1966.
- Physical Description
- xii, 217 pp.
- Description
- Argues that Ovid inspired the structure, narrative complexities, and thematic focus of CT—its tales-within-a-tale structure, its multiple narrators characterized by their tales, and its concern with two kinds of love, higher and lower—and shows that a large number of specific echoes of "Amores," "Ars Amatoria," "Fasti," "Heroides," and, especially "Metamorphoses" are manifest in GP, KnT, MilT, MLPT, WBPT, SumT, MerT, SqT, FranT, PhyT, Mel, MkT (Hercules), and ManT, demonstrating these specific influences by providing parallel passages from Chaucer's texts, Ovid's texts, and medieval analogues and commentaries.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Canterbury Tales--General