A Study in the Sources and Rhetoric of Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women" and Ovid's "Heroides."

Author / Editor
Winsor, Eleanor Jane.

Title
A Study in the Sources and Rhetoric of Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women" and Ovid's "Heroides."

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.08 (1968): 3161-62A.

Description
Reads LGW as a comic "parody . . . partially directed at sentimental readings of the Ovidian complaint" found in "Heroides," focusing on the palinode, love vision, and characters of LGWP and the "humorous inconsistencies" of the legends.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations