The Suicide of the Legend of Good Women

Author / Editor
Marvin, Julia.

Title
The Suicide of the Legend of Good Women

Published
Robert Epstein and William Robins, eds. Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming (Buffalo, N. Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp. 113-28.

Description
Marvin traces a pattern of concern with literary interpretation in LGWP-F and exemplifies that the pattern is also evident in "some of the legends themselves," particularly Dido's. The F prologue and the tale assert bookish authority, question it, reject it, and then affirm the difficulty of resolving such contradictions.

Alternative Title
Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.