Titolo 'Death-bed recantations': Euripides, Chaucer, and Thomas Tyrwhitt Periodico Prometheus Anno: 1999 - Volume: 25 - Fascicolo: Fascicolo 2 - Pagina iniziale: 129 - Pagina finale: 131
Thomas Tyrwhitt, editor of Chaucer, whose repentance on his death-bed was well known, was the first critic who saw in Euripides’ Bacchae a sort of palinody by the dramatist. This interpretation may have been prompted by this episode of Chaucer’s life.