Amoryus and Cleopes PB

by John Metham

Book Overview

In this volume, John Metham's classic romance Amoryus and Cleopes is made available to a wider audience of students and teachers of Middle English with its contextualizing introduction, extensive notes, and helpful gloss. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580440169
• ISBN13: 9781580440165
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"