Songs of the Dying Swan: Dido, Aeneas, and the Divine in 14th Through 16th Century Literary Adaptations
Abstract
This research thesis examines how the depictions of the divine within the Classical Latin source texts and the English adaptations of the tragic love story of Aeneas and Dido, before and after the Protestant Reformation, frame the way we perceive the actions and character of the mortals it concerns with respect to gender, power, and ethnic lenses.
Subject
AeneidDido
Aeneas
Juno
Venus
piatas
divinity
mortality
Douglas
Virgil
Caxton
Marlowe
Chaucer
Glasscock Summer Scholars
Citation
Randle, Ryan Ansley Malia (2020). Songs of the Dying Swan: Dido, Aeneas, and the Divine in 14th Through 16th Century Literary Adaptations. Undergraduate Research Scholars Program. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /194533.