Cupid's Sight in the Prologue to the 'Legend of Good Women'

Author / Editor
Smith, Sarah Stanbury.

Title
Cupid's Sight in the Prologue to the 'Legend of Good Women'

Published
Centerpoint 4 (1981): 95-102.

Description
Implications of clear-sighted love in the Middle Ages lead one to view Cupid in Chaucer's LGW as a symbol of marital, generative love. But because this Cupid is indiscriminate in love (being in favor of it, without regard to circumstances), it is clear that the Narrator in the garden is not a reliable spokesman for good women.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.