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Part of the book: The Theme of Love in the 'Romans d'Antiquité'

Rosemarie Jones

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 5

Modern Humanities Research Association

MedievalFrenchPoetryopen

Abstract.  The work of the French author of Piramus et Tisbé, adapted from the story in Ovid's Metamorphoses, is essentially a work of amplification. On the basis of the 111 lines which the story of Pyramus and Thisbe occupies in the Metamorphoses, the author has constructed a much longer poem of 921 lines. Examination of the two texts reveals a very striking adhesion to the general lines of Ovid's account.

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