Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women': Structure and Tone

Author / Editor
Cowen, Janet M.

Title
Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women': Structure and Tone

Published
Studies in Philology 82 (1985): 416-36.

Description
In LGW, Chaucer uses the narrative approaches of hagiography (brevity, narrative selection, and focus for commemorative and edificational purpose) to achieve variations in tone and perspective. The heroines, however, are exempla of human, not divine, truth.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.