Alceste and Chaucer's View of Poetry in the 'Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Carlson, Paula J.
Alceste and Chaucer's View of Poetry in the 'Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Mediaevalia 11 (1989, for 1985): 139-50.
- Description
- In LGWP, Alceste is a more complicated character than is suggested by references to her in TC: "Alceste's truth, goodness, and faithfulness are offset in the Prologue by her obstinance, petulance, and fickleness." Critical readings ignore the "multiplicity of her roles" in LGWP as "protector and patron of the poet and as audience and literary critic of his work."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.