'Twenty Thousand More': Some Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Responses to The Legend of Good Women
- Author / Editor
- Boffey, Julia.
'Twenty Thousand More': Some Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Responses to The Legend of Good Women
- Published
- A. J. Minnis, ed. Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2001), pp. 279-97.
- Description
- Boffey summarizes the various numbers of legends included in LGW and in references to the work and assesses concern with these numbers. She considers LGW in light of the tradition of nine female Worthies in literature and the visual arts and in light of illustrated versions of Ovid's "Heroides."
- Contributor
- Minnis, A. J., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.