John Gower's "Jason and Medea"--A Story of Golden Love.
- Author/Editor
- Itô, Masayoshi.
- Title
- John Gower's "Jason and Medea"--A Story of Golden Love.
- Published
- Itô, Masayoshi. "John Gower's 'Jason and Medea--A Story of Golden Love." Bulletin of the Faculty of Education (Shizuoka University) 25 (1974): 78-89. English version in Ito's John Gower: The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinzaki Shorin, 1976), 80-100.
- Review
- Argues that although Gower's story is based on versions in the "Roman de Troie" and Ovid's "Metamorphoses," he makes his own tale by emending his sources freely, focusing his story on the lovers, and Jason's betrayal. original version in Japanese, with an English abstract. [RFY1981; rev. MA]
- Date
- 1974
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
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