... -vision excuses any daring attempts on Chaucer's part to manipulate and revise the characters and themes of authoritative texts and to comment on the unreliability and lack of credibility of the traditional sources. Furthermore, the form may permit Chaucer to fulfil his own dream: to elevate himself from the position of the mere makere' to the one of the poete'. Accordingly, the revision of the story of Aeneas enables Chaucer to create his own story ... betray Dido in order to secure his masculine identity and dominance, and, at the end, he is rewarded for his awakening regardless of the...

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