The Storyteller and His Audience: 'The Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Mehl, Dieter.
The Storyteller and His Audience: 'The Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Dieter Mehl. Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction to His Narrative Poetry (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 98-119
- Description
- The reader shares Chaucer's struggle with the difficulties of retelling the classical myths. Traces the adaptation of the persona to "Heroides," and Chaucer's renderings of stories to indeterminate readings and judgments. The use of sources entails "critical debate and individual reflection."
- This essay has been added to the volume originally published in German in 1973; the essay is also reprinted in Joerg Fichte, ed. Chaucer's Frame Tales (Cambridge, D. S. Brewer,1987), pp. 129-54.
- Alternative Title
- Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction to His Narrative Poetry.
- Chaucer's Frame Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.