The Legend of "The Legend of Good Women."

Author / Editor
Frank, Robert Worth, Jr.

Title
The Legend of "The Legend of Good Women."

Published
Chaucer Review 1.2 (1966): 110-33.

Description
Rejects the argument that Chaucer abandoned LGW out of weariness or boredom on the grounds that Chaucer had long been interested in classical love stories, that he took time to revise LGWP, that he employed abbreviation and "occupatio" effectively in the legends, that his claims of weariness are rhetorical (and found elsewhere in his poetry), that his use of comedy is characteristic, and that LGW shares its unfinished status with HF, CT, CkT, and SqT.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Style and Versification