Chaucer's Idea of 'Love' and 'Goodness' in 'The Legend of Good Women'

Author / Editor
Shigeo, Hisashi.

Title
Chaucer's Idea of 'Love' and 'Goodness' in 'The Legend of Good Women'

Published
The Meiji Gakuin Review (October 1980): 37-54.

Description
The stories about Hypsipyle, Medea, Lucrece, and Ariadne are treated. In each case it seems that the poet finds feminine virtue in masculine vice. Except for the case of Lucrece, simplicity and flippancy on the part of women are exempted from moral denunciation.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.