The Legend of Good Women: Written in Praise of Women Faithful in Love

Author / Editor
Anastasas, Florence H., trans.

Title
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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