Fabulous Women, Fables of Patronage: Metham's "Amoryus and Cleopes" and BL MS Additional 10304.
- Author / Editor
- Doyle, Kara.
Fabulous Women, Fables of Patronage: Metham's "Amoryus and Cleopes" and BL MS Additional 10304.
- Published
- Seeta Chaganti, ed. Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), pp. 124-42.
- Description
- Reads the figure of Alceste in LGW as a "fable" of female patronage, and argues that texts such as John Metham's "Amoryus and Cleopes" and an anonymous English translation of a portion of Boccaccio's "De Mulieribus Claris" do not follow Chaucer's (or Boccaccio's) lead in this respect. Chaucer "jokingly" poses "fascinating questions" about female patrons and audiences, but the later texts take them seriously.
- Contributor
- Seeta Chaganti, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion