The Tale and the Book: Readings of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women in the Fifteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Meale, Carol M.
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.