Heaven, Hell, and 'The Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- McMillan, Ann.
Heaven, Hell, and 'The Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Constance H. Berman, Charles W. Connell, and Judith Rice Rothschild, eds. The Worlds of Medieval Women (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 1985), pp. 122-29.
- Description
- In LGW, Chaucer explodes "the notion that women are, or should be, self-ordained victims." Women in Cupid's Paradise wallow in an "orgy of self-congratulation" for having died for love. The pathos of women destroyed by passion is emphasized in the sorrowing fields of Hades.
- Alternative Title
- The Worlds of Medieval Women.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.