A Curious Error? Geoffrey Chaucer's Legend of Hypermnestra

Author / Editor
Aloni, Gila.

Title
A Curious Error? Geoffrey Chaucer's Legend of Hypermnestra

Published
Chaucer Review 36: 73-86, 2001.

Description
Chaucer's changes to the Ovidian version of Hypermnestra in LGW--exchanging the names of Danaus and Aegyptus and then reducing the number of daughters from fifty to one--were not an "error." Chaucer both indicates that men are not "stably positioned as agents and transactors" and "radically questions the very nature of the exchange of women."

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.