Chaucer's Revision of the Prologue to "The Legend of Good Women."
- Author/Editor
- Seymour, M. C.
- Title
- Chaucer's Revision of the Prologue to "The Legend of Good Women."
- Published
- Seymour, M. C. "Chaucer's Revision of the Prologue to 'The Legend of Good Women'." Modern Language Review 92 (1997): 832-41.
- Review
- Seymour examines in this essay the revisions evident in the G version of Chaucer's Prologue to "Legend of Good Women" found in Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.27, the only witness to this version of the poem; he assesses both "accidental and intentional revisions to the text" (832). Along the way, he argues that Chaucer undertook his revision to please the newly crowned Henry IV and--he suggests in passing and without development--"in imitation" (841) of Gower's revision of his Prologue to the CA: "Some years earlier Gower had pointedly revised the Prologue to the 'Confessio Amantis' in Henry's favour, and the two poems and the two poets have much in common" (840). [MA. Copyright. The John Gower Society eJGN 40.1]
- Date
- 1997
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
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