The Dynamics of the European Short Narrative in Its Manuscript Context: The Case of Pyramus and Thisbe.
- Author / Editor
- Pratt, Karen.
The Dynamics of the European Short Narrative in Its Manuscript Context: The Case of Pyramus and Thisbe.
- Published
- Karen Pratt, Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer, and Ad Putter, eds. The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript (Göttingen: V&R Academic, 2017), pp. 257-85.
- Description
- Traces the emphases and manuscript contexts of Latin and vernacular versions of the Pyramus and Thisbe story from Ovidian origins to Chaucer's narrative in LGW, with emphasis on the comic or bathetic elements of Chaucer's account and on its place in the Findern manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6).
- Alternative Title
- The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
Manuscripts and Textual Studies