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The legend of good women

  • Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer.

The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout The Canterbury Tales. This form of the heroic couplet would become a significant part of English literature no doubt inspired by Chaucer.

The prologue describes how Chaucer is reprimanded by the god of love and his queen, Alceste, for his works—such as Troilus and Criseyde—depicting women in a poor light. Criseyde is made to seem inconstant in love in that earlier work, and Alceste demands a poem of Chaucer extolling the virtues of women and their good deeds.

Genres

  • Poetry
  • Women
  • Mythology
  • Biography
  • Classical Mythology
  • Textual Criticism
  • Femmes
  • Biographies
  • Mythologie
  • Poesie
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Legend of good women -- Criticism, Textual
  • Women -- Poetry
  • Women -- Mythology -- Poetry
  • Women -- Biography -- Poetry
  • Mythology, Classical -- Poetry
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About the author

  • Geoffrey Chaucer

    1343 - 25 October 1400

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Editions

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    Michigan State University Press

    July 1995

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    1st ed.

    Rice University Press

    1987

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    Colleagues Press, Michigan State University Press

    1995

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    Kessinger Publishing

    June 30, 2004

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Lrg edition

ReadHowYouWant.com

November 1, 2006

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    ReadHowYouWant.com

    November 1, 2006

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    Adamant Media Corporation

    July 18, 2005

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    Clarendon Press

    1889

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    Clarendon press

    1889

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    1st ed.

    Exposition Press

    1976

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    Chatto & Windus

    1907

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    1st ed edition

    Exposition Pr of Florida

    December 1983

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    Clarendon Press

    1889