The Dynamics of the European Short Narrative in Its Manuscript Context: The Case of Pyramus and Thisbe.

Author / Editor
Pratt, Karen.

Title
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