Chaucer's Good Woman.
- Author / Editor
- Overbeck, Pat Trefzger.
Chaucer's Good Woman.
- Published
- Chaucer Review 2.2 (1967): 75-94.
- Description
- Explores the female protagonists of the legends in LGW and Chaucer's adaptations of his sources in these legends to sketch Chaucer's "psychograph of the Good Woman," emphasizing rejection of authority and active pursuit of love and sex, "a human being who is free and willing to choose between alternative courses of action." In these respects and others, the women of LGW anticipate the Wife of Bath.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Wife of Bath and Her Tale