Rethinking Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women"
- Author / Editor
- Collette, Carolyn P.
Rethinking Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women"
- Published
- Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2014.
- Physical Description
- xi, 168 pp.
- Description
- Examines LGW within the sociocultural and intellectual contexts of the late fourteenth century, paying especial attention to early humanist and late courtly traditions. LGWP may be juxtaposed with Richard de Bury's "Philobiblon"; and the legends themselves with Boccaccio's "Amorosa visione" and "De mulieribus claris," Christine de Pizan's "Cité des dames," Machaut's "Jugement dou roi de Navarre," and Gower's "Confessio Amantis." Aristotle's "Ethics" complicates LGW by imposing the notion of "the mean" upon the tales' excesses. Reads LGW as a mid-point on a continuum with TC and CT as the end-points, viewing LGW as a stylistic and thematic "palinode" vis-á-vis TC. Also, CT could be similarly construed in relation to LGW--for instance, in the comedic redactions of ClT and FranT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Clerk and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale