Republican Chaucer: Lucan, Lucrece, and the "Legend of Good Women."
- Author / Editor
- Arner, Timothy.
Republican Chaucer: Lucan, Lucrece, and the "Legend of Good Women."
- Published
- Comparative Literature 69.2 (2017): 160-80.
- Description
- Shows that Lucan's "Bellum civile," the medieval "accessus" tradition, and "vitae Lucani" together depict the Roman poet as a "violated female," victimized by his "tyrannical emperor," and abruptly silenced, arguing that this legacy influenced LGW (particularly LGWP, the account of Lucrece, and the abrupt ending of the poem), reflecting its critique of "the loss of discursive and political liberty under the absolutist rule of Richard II."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations