Chaucer's Pathos: Three Variations

Author / Editor
Guerin, Dorothy (Jane).

Title
Chaucer's Pathos: Three Variations

Published
Chaucer Review 20 (1985): 90-112.

Description
Pairing three legends from LGW with three of the CT results in useful categories of Chaucer's pathos: Lucrece, PrT--naive portrayal of saintlike stereotype; Philomena, MLT--stock romantic figure of lady in distress; Hypermnestra, PhyT--pathetic, but not stereotyped, victim of temporal justice.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.
Prioress and Her Tale.
Man of Law and His Tale.
Physician and His Tale.