"Antony and Cleopatra" and "The Legend of Good Women."

Author / Editor
Schanzer, Ernest.

Title
"Antony and Cleopatra" and "The Legend of Good Women."

Published
Notes and Queries 205 (1960): 335-36.

Description
Argues that the Cleopatra legend in LGW is the source of details in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra." Also argues that Chaucer derived information about Cleopatra's marriage to her brother(s) from Vincent of Beauvais' "Speculum Historiale," not from Boccaccio.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations