The Legend of Good Women: Written in Praise of Women Faithful in Love
- Author / Editor
- Anastasas, Florence H., trans.
The Legend of Good Women: Written in Praise of Women Faithful in Love
- Published
- Hicksville, N. Y.: Exposition Press, 1976.
- Physical Description
- ix, 202 pp.
- Description
- Part I (pp. 3-84) is a modern verse translation of LGWP (F version) and LGW in rhyming iambic pentameter couplets; Part II includes an additional eleven poems written by Anastasas to complement Chaucer's work, with additional "legends" dedicated to Vashti and Esther, Isolt, Elaine, Penelope, CanaceĢ, Lavinia, Macia Catoun, Polyxena, Hero, Laodameia, and Alcestis, with an author's prologue and epilogue. Also includes 12 charts of the "Good Women's Genealogies."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
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