The Naughty Bits: Dating Chaucer's 'House of Fame' and 'Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Bowers, John M.
The Naughty Bits: Dating Chaucer's 'House of Fame' and 'Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- R. F. Yeager and Toshiyuki Takamiya, eds. The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 105-17
- Description
- Dates HF in the mid-1380s, positioning it as a "transitional work" between TC and CT and a reflection of Chaucer's status at the time as a king's man. Argues that LGW was written concurrently with CT, with LGWP-F as early as 1392, and revised as LGWP-G after 1394. LGW is addressed to Richard II and his court; CT to "literary posterity."
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Legend of Good Women
- Chaucer's Life