Appropriating the Classical Underworld: The Otherworld and its Spectacle in 'Sir Orfeo'
In the Middle English Breton lay, Sir Orfeo (c. 1340), the Underworld transforms from its classical prototype of an ominous realm of shadows into the marvellous Otherworld. In this paper, I examine the Orfeo poet’s rewriting of Greco-Roman Orpheus tradition with a focus on the poet’s reception of th...
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University of Western Australia
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/2517308/Hsing-wen-Tsai-article.pdf |