John Metham: Amoryus and Cleopes
John Metham: Amoryus and Cleopes Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 142
ISBN: 9781580440165
Pub Date: December 1999
Imprint: Medieval Institute Publications
Price: £4.95   RRP: £12.00
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Description:
This fifteenth century romance, written by John Metham, creatively reworks Ovid’s tale of Pyramus and Thisbe’s tragic love from his Metamorphoses. Metham draws on a wide variety of popular romances and particularly Chaucer’s Ovidian works to create an inventive romance of his own with a decidedly moral aim. The Middle English text is accompanied by a contextualizing introduction, extensive notes, and helpful gloss.