The Tales of Acteon and Narcissus in the Confession Amantis.
- Author/Editor
- Cresswell, Julia
- Title
- The Tales of Acteon and Narcissus in the Confession Amantis.
- Published
- Cresswell, Julia. "The Tales of Acteon and Narcissus in the Confession Amantis." Reading Medieval Studies 7 (1981), pp. 32-40. ISSN 0950-3129
- Review
- This is a fairly detailed examination of Gower's adaptations of two tales from Book 3 of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Book 1 of the Confessio Amantis. Gower shortens and simplifies both tales, adapts them to the fourtenth century and to his moral instruction. Gower reduces violence, plays down change (metamorphosis), and tones down the divine nature of the characters. The study finds this typical of Gower's treatment of the twenty-eight tales he uses from Ovid's Metamorphosis. [Douglas J. Macmillan. Copyright the John Gower Society. JGN 2.2]
- Date
- 1981
- Gower Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Confessio Amantis