The Two Prologues to the "Legend of Good Women."

Description: Surveys theories of why Chaucer altered LGWP from the F-version to the G-version, and seeks to explain "every single change" he made in creating anew a complete, "organic" poem. The revised version better accords with the poet's treatment of love in the legends themselves where it is a qualified ideal rather than silly and pseudo-religious as in F. In F, the narrator is burlesqued as "simpleminded"; in G, he is more realistic while still comic.