Chaucer's Summary of Statius' Thebaid II-XII.
- Author / Editor
- Magoun, Francis P., Jr.
Chaucer's Summary of Statius' Thebaid II-XII.
- Published
- Traditio 11 (1955): 409-20.
- Description
- Quotes, translates, and anatomizes the Latin "arguments" of the "books" found in Statius' "Thebaid" that underlie Cassandra's summary of the Statius' work in TC 5.1457-1533, with its twelve-line Latin summary interpolated in most TC manuscripts. Comments on manuscript witnesses, and shows that Chaucer used the arguments found in Statius as source material.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies