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Chaucer's Legendary Good Women by Percival, Florence. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Cover 1 Chaucer’s Legendary Good Women 2 Contents 10 Note on the text 11 Abbreviations 12 Introduction 14 PART I Chaucer’s Good Woman 34 1 The Good Woman: the daisy 36 2 Alceste: the Good Woman of legend 56 3 The Good Woman: a legendary beast? 72 PART II The God of Love 90 4 The God of Love 92 5 The accusation 109 THE CHARGE AGAINST THE POET 111 6 The defence: tyrants of Lombardy 126 7 The defence: matere and entente 143 PART III The Palinode 162 8 The Palinode 164 PART IV The Legends of good women 184 9 Ariadne: the ladies and the critics 186 ARIADNE 189 10 Medea: the ladies and their reputations 212 MEDEA 216 11 Cleopatra: legend of Cupid’s saint 234 12 Dido: composite Woman 252 13 Lucrece: too good to be true? 274 14 Phyllis and inherited male perfidy 297 PART V The Legend as courtly game 310 15 The Legend as courtly game 312 Epilogue 338 Index 346

Who reads Chaucer's Legendary Good Women?

Author

Percival, Florence.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction