Women in Love: On the Unity of 'The Legend of Good Women' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Collette, Carolyn P.

Title
Women in Love: On the Unity of 'The Legend of Good Women' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
John M. Hill, Bonnie Wheeler, and R. F. Yeager, eds. Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2014), pp. 96-114.

Description
Addresses shared tropes, themes, and language of LGW and TC. Presents LGW not as a "failed text" in its incompleteness, but as a work that is "grounded" in the tragedy of TC and that anticipates the "comedic narratives" of CT.

Alternative Title
Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Troilus and Criseyde
Style and Versification