An Interpretive Study of Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'

Author / Editor
Shaner, Mary Carol Edwards.

Title
An Interpretive Study of Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'

Published
DAI 34.02 (1973): 739A.

Description
Surveys medieval attitudes toward the women featured as protagonists in Chaucer's LGW and reads Chaucer's characters in light of these attitudes, observing that they vary as "not-so-good" women and "not-so-bad" ones, a reflection of the limits of human love.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women