This article examines the influence of natural law philosophy upon four of Dryden's translations of Chaucer and Boccaccio published in his final collection Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700): “Sigismonda and Guiscardo”, “The Wife of Bath, her Tale”, “Palamon and Arcite” and “Cymon and Iphigenia”. Situating Dryden's tales alongside the writings of his philosophical, political and literary contemporaries as well as their classical sources, it argues that Dryden's distinctive choice of vocabulary and innovative amplifications of his originals constitute a subtly provocative interrogation of the use of natural law rhetoric within the seventeenth century.
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