"Charitable and trewe': Multiplicity, Prudence, and Pity in the Prologue of Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women.”

Author / Editor
Howe-Warnky, Sarah.

Title
"Charitable and trewe': Multiplicity, Prudence, and Pity in the Prologue of Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women.”

Published
Chaucer Review 56.3 (2021): 258-79.

Description
Examines LGW as a poetic work that invites criticism as a function of how it is structured. Looks in depth at Alceste and her efforts in the poem, reappraising how she achieves success with the God of Love.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women