El espejo imperfecto: Píramo y Tisbe en los relatos medievales franceses

• Main Author: Evelio Miñano Martínez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española (AFUE) 2019-04-01
• Series: Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses
• Subjects: Love; Identification; Differentiation; Medieval French Literature; Ovid
• Online Access: http://cedille.webs.ull.es/15/17minano.pdf

The story of Pyramus and Thisbe narrated by Ovid in his Metamorphoses has given rise to a significant number of stories regarding the two lovers in French Medieval Literature. In this essay, we observe the French constellation of the Ovidian story focusing on a treatment that a fundamental element of the universe of Ovidian fiction has shown: its oscillation between identifying and differentiating the two lovers. In the French medieval versions, it may be observed a marked trend to individualize the feminine character and to give him more relief; although this does not always happen in such a way. Actually, a similar tension is observed in the moral and allegorical interpretations. Therefore, each author has extended the constellation of Pyramus and Thisbe in their own way, developing a universe of fiction stressed by the identification and individualization.