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The Legend of Good Women : context and reception

Essays re-examining the Legend of Good Women, placing it in its cultural and historical context.
Print Book, English, 2006
D.S. Brewer, Cambridge, UK, 2006
Aufsatzsammlung
xviii, 203 s.179 s.
9781843840718, 1843840715
185343536
Introduction - Carolyn P ColletteThe Legend of Good Women: Performance, Performativity and Presentation - William A. QuinnThe Flower, the Leaf, and Philippa of Lancaster - Joyce ColemanRicardian Dreamwork: Chaucer, Cupid, and Loyal Lovers - Robert R. Edwards`Olde Stories' and Amazons: The Legend of Good Women, the `Knight's Tale', and Fourteenth-Century Political Culture - Nancy Bradley WarrenRemembering the Game; Debating the Legend's Women - Betsy McCormickIntention, Integrity and `Renoun': The Public Virtue of Chaucer's Good Women - Simon Meecham-JonesThe God of Love and the Love of God: Palinodic Exchange in the Prologue of the Legend of Good Women and the `Retraction' - Jamie C. FumoGames Medieval Women Play - Nicola F McDonald