Seduction and Betrayal: Treason in the 'Prologue' to the 'Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Hanrahan, Michael.
Seduction and Betrayal: Treason in the 'Prologue' to the 'Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 229-40.
- Description
- When an angry God of Love accuses the narrator of a breach of faith, Alceste rebukes the god for believing false counselors. This action reflects the political situation of Chaucer's time. The Lord's Appellant had attacked Richard II's corrupt counselors for giving him evil advice--a violation of trust and therefore "treason" in the medieval sense of the word.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Chaucer's Life.