John Gower and "Pyramus and Thisbe."
- Author/Editor
- Taylor, A. B.
- Title
- John Gower and "Pyramus and Thisbe."
- Published
- Taylor, A. B. "John Gower and 'Pyramus and Thisbe'." Notes and Queries 54 (2007): 282-83.
- Review
- Taylor, acknowledging that Bottom's Dream ("Midsummer Night's Dream" V.i.206-12) "contains a debt to Paul's discussion of 'the deep things of God'" (282), points out that " . . . it has escaped notice that John Gower also links 1 Corinthians 2: 9 and Pyramus in 'Confessio Amantis'" (III. 1417-28), a poem "Shakespeare knew well" (282). Taylor cites as Gowerian also the lion (changed from Ovid's lioness) and "there is also the hole in the wall" (282) which he attributes to Confessio III. 1370-71(283). [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 42.2]
- Date
- 2007
- Gower Subjects
- Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations