Chaucer's 'Legend of Dido': A Feminist Exemplum

Author / Editor
Sanderlin, George.

Title
Chaucer's 'Legend of Dido': A Feminist Exemplum

Published
Chaucer Review 20 (1986): 331-40.

Description
In the Dido episode of LGW, Chaucer minimizes both Aeneas's destiny and his character, focusing on Dido's character and thus producing a (negative) feminist exemplum.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.