Chaucer's Legend of Good Women: The Narrator's Tale

Author / Editor
Palmer, R. Barton.

Title
Chaucer's Legend of Good Women: The Narrator's Tale

Published
Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, eds. New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry (Rochester, N.Y., and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 183-94.

Description
Palmer argues that LGW is not merely a collection of tales retold from Ovid; it is also the story of the narrator's problematic relationship to the God of Love.

Alternative Title
New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.