The 'Translatio' of Memory and Desire in 'The Legend of Good Women': Chaucer and the Vernacular 'Heroides'

Author / Editor
Desmond, Marilynn R.

Title
The 'Translatio' of Memory and Desire in 'The Legend of Good Women': Chaucer and the Vernacular 'Heroides'

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35 (2013): 179-207.

Description
Explores the influence of Italian and French vernacular versions of Ovid's "Heroides" on the legends of LGW, where Chaucer engages and undermines the historical emphasis of these vernacular versions and reasserts the literary, rhetorical authority of the Ovidian originals. Also comments on the Ovidianism of letters in TC and on the presentation of LGW in MLP.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Troilus and Criseyde
Man of Law and His Tale