The Tale of Acteon (CA, I, 333-78).
- Author/Editor
- Beidler, Peter G
- Title
- The Tale of Acteon (CA, I, 333-78).
- Published
- Beidler, Peter G. "The Tale of Acteon (CA, I, 333-78)." In John Gower's Literary Transformations in the Confessio Amantis: Original Articles and Translations. Ed. Beidler, Peter G. Washington, D. C.: University Press of America, 1982. Pp. 7-10. ISBN 0819125962
- Review
- Beidler summarizes Ovid's account of the death of Acteon ("Metamorphoses" 3.138-252) and identifies ways that Gower alters this source of his own account in CA 1.333-78: he "eliminates elements in Ovid's tale, however vivid or dramatic they were, which would not advance his moral purpose," which is to warn against "looking when one should not look." [MA]
- Date
- 1982
- Gower Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Confessio Amantis