Questioning Nature: Dryden's "Fables, Ancient and Modern."
- Author / Editor
- Smallwood, Richard.
Questioning Nature: Dryden's "Fables, Ancient and Modern."
- Published
- In Jayne Lewis and Lisa Zunshine, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2013), pp. 164-68.
- Description
- Advocates teaching John Dryden's "Fables, Ancient and Modern" as "his most accomplished poetical production," discussing the status-resistant view of natural gentility in his translation of WBT and of Boccaccio's tale of Sigismunda and Guiscardo. Includes comments on similarities and differences between the original poems and Dryden's versions.
- Contributor
- Lewis, Jayne, ed.
Zunshine, Lisa, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden.
- Chaucer Subjects
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