From Cleopatra to Alceste: An Iconographic Study of 'The Legend of Good Women
- Author / Editor
- Kolve, V. A.
From Cleopatra to Alceste: An Iconographic Study of 'The Legend of Good Women
- Published
- John P. Hermann and John J. Burke, eds. Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry (University: University of Alabama Press, 1981), pp. 130-78.
- Description
- In LGW, Chaucer suppressed most of the Cleopatra tradition (asps, etc.) to make her a medieval "good woman," who builds a shrine for Anthony and enters a snake pit to dramatize the grave-worm "topos." Alceste transcends the grave--the thematic impulse of LGW.
- Alternative Title
- Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.