An Interpretation of Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women."

Author/Editor
Griffith, D. D.

Title
An Interpretation of Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women."

Published
Griffith, D. D. "An Interpretation of Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'." The Manly Anniversary Studies in Language and Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923), pp. 32-43. Rpt. in Edward Wagenknecht, ed. Chaucer: Modern Essays in Criticism (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), pp. 396-404.

Review
The impulse for Chaucer's revision of the Prologue to the "Legend of Good Women" probably came from a request by Venus in Book VIII of Gower's CA, that Chaucer continue his work. [RFY1981]

Date
1923

Gower Subjects
Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations