'The Legend of Good Women': Chaucer's 'Purgatorio'
- Author / Editor
- Kiser, Lisa J.
'The Legend of Good Women': Chaucer's 'Purgatorio'
- Published
- ELH 54 (1987): 741-60.
- Description
- Despite totally different tone and purpose, Chaucer's LGWP parallels Dante's "Purgatorio" significantly: both poets present their narrators as undergoing penance; both Alceste and Beatrice, allegorically garbed and attended, serve as spiritual mediators, heralds of deities, and reconcilers of the classical with the contemporary. Dante's profession of reality contrasts with Chaucer's evident fiction.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.