The Tale and the Book: Readings of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women in the Fifteenth Century

Author / Editor
Meale, Carol M.

Title
The Tale and the Book: Readings of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women in the Fifteenth Century

Published
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 118-38

Description
Analyzes evidence of readership found in fifteenth-century copies of LGW, including its placement in anthologies, poems with which it is associated, and evidence of female names in LGW manuscripts. Infrequently excerpted, the poem was seldom mined for material in the ongoing literary debate of the "woman question," and it seems that it was most generally read as "an exercise in sentimental complaint."

Alternative Title
Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.