Serious Play: Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hanning, Robert W.

Serious play : desire and authority in the poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto/Robert W. Hanning.

p. cm.—(Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-231-15210-5 (cloth : acid-free paper)—ISBN 978-0-231-52639-5 (e-book)

1. Comic, The, in literature. 2. Desire in literature. 3. Authority in literature. 4. Ovid, 43 B.C.—17 or 18 A.D.—Criticism and interpretation. 5. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400—Criticism and interpretation. 6. Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474–1533—Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series.

PN56.C66H36 2010

809'.917—dc22

2010003740

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