Serious play
Subtitle: desire and authority in the poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto
By: Robert W. Hanning.
Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231152105; 9780231526395
Subjects: Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation; Ariosto, Lodovico, -- 1474-1533 -- Criticism and interpretation; Comic, The, in literature; Desire in literature; Authority in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ovid's amatory poetry: Rome in a comic mirror; title: Chaucer: dealing with the authorities; or, twisting the nose that feeds you; title: Ariosto's Orlando Furioso: confusion multiply confounded; or, astray in the forest of desire.