Heaven, Hell, and 'The Legend of Good Women'

Author / Editor
McMillan, Ann.

Title
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.