Disappearing Daughters: Proserpina and Medea in the Works of Spenser and Shakespeare.
- Author/Editor
- Thomsen, Kerri Lynne.
- Title
- Disappearing Daughters: Proserpina and Medea in the Works of Spenser and Shakespeare.
- Published
- Thomsen, Kerri Lynne. Disappearing Daughters: Proserpina and Medea in the Works of Spenser and Shakespeare. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1994. Dissertation Abstracts International A55.08. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
- Review
- Chapter four explores "connections between four of Shakespeare's plays and the story of Medea as Shakespeare read it in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' and Arthur Golding's translation of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' "(p. 16): "The Merchant of Venice," "Othello," "King Lear," and "The Tempest."
- Date
- 1994
- Gower Subjects
- Influence and Later Allusion
Confessio Amantis