Chaucer's "The Legend of Lucrece."

Author / Editor
LaHood, Marvin J.

Title
Chaucer's "The Legend of Lucrece."

Published
Philological Quarterly 43 (1964): 274-76.

Description
Identifies changes that Chaucer's made to his source, Ovid's "Fasti," when shaping his version of the story of Lucrece in LGW, changes that "Christianized" the account.

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