Ovid's Argus and Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Hoffman, Richard L.
Ovid's Argus and Chaucer.
- Published
- Notes and Queries 210 (1965): 213-16.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's allusions to Argus in WBP, MerT, and TC derive ultimately from Ovid's "Ars Amatoria" and "Amores" and capitalize on the "conventional moral significations" of the moralized commentary tradition, lending resonances to the allusions
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Troilus and Criseyde
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Merchant and His Tale