Chaucer's Ruth: An Exegetical Poetic in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women

Author / Editor
Martin, Ellen E.

Title
Chaucer's Ruth: An Exegetical Poetic in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women

Published
Exemplaria 3 (1991): 467-90.

Description
Examines exegetical interpretations of and allusions to the story of Ruth. Chaucer's allusion to Ruth in LGWP expresses alienation and belatedness and asserts poetic privilege and the interpretive creativity of marginality.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.