Dido as an Example of Chastity: The Influence of Example Literature.
- Author/Editor
- Lord, M. L.
- Title
- Dido as an Example of Chastity: The Influence of Example Literature.
- Published
- Lord, M. L. "Dido as an Example of Chastity: The Influence of Example Literature." Harvard Library Bulletin 17 (January and April, 1969): 22-44, 216-32.
- Review
- Traces the two traditions of attitudes toward Dido in Latin and Christian literature: Dido as a suicide preserves herself from a forced marriage with Sichaeus, and Dido as an adulterous women who kills herself out of grief for the departed Aeneas. Gower follows the latter tradition in the CA. [RFY1981]
- Date
- 1969
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations