'Sely Dido': A Good Woman's Fame
- Author / Editor
- Ruff, Nancy K.
'Sely Dido': A Good Woman's Fame
- Published
- Classical and Modern Literature 12 (1991): 59-68.
- Description
- Chaucer's ironic treatment of the Dido legend in LGW and HF involves a naive narrator who erroneously sympathizes with Dido; a medieval audience would have recognized differences from the treatment of Dido in Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Heroides. Chaucer signals the reader to question the written word and reveals a mistrust of poetic fiction.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.