The Art of Variation in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'

Author / Editor
Guerin, Dorothy Jane.

Title
The Art of Variation in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1978): 4149A.

Description
Chaucer's chief object in LGW is to explore, through the art of "variatio," irrational sexual passion as a source of human misery. The legends divide into three distinct groups: the pathetic tale, Dido and its variations, and star-crossed lovers.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.