num_pages: 224
description: The essays in this volume explore the context and reception of Chaucer's neglected The Legend of Good Women from a variety of late medieval cultural perspectives, verbal, political, and social, expanding our understanding of the web of poetic and cultural conventions in which the Legend was created and received. Topics addressed include the manuscript and print history of the poem (explored through performance theory, and in the context of erotic courtly games played by the aristocracy); the politics of Philippa of Lancaster's role in transmitting the flower and leaf topos from French literature into English; the connections between love and polity in the Prologue ; the influence of stories of Amazons, Thebes, and Troy; and the ludic dimensions of the Legend .CAROLYN P. COLLETTE is Professor of English Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke College. WILLIAM A. QUINN, JOYCE COLEMAN, ROBERT R. EDWARDS, NANCY BRADLEY WARREN, BETSY MCCORMICK, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, JAMIE C. FUMO, NICOLA F. MCDONALDTable of ContentsIntroduction - Carolyn P ColletteThe Legend of Good Women : Performance, Performativity and Presentation - William A. QuinnThe Flower, the Leaf, and Philippa of Lancaster - Joyce ColemanRicardian Chaucer, Cupid, and Loyal Lovers - Robert R. Edwards`Olde Stories' and 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 Palinodic Exchange in the Prologue of the Legend of Good Women and the `Retraction' - Jamie C. FumoGames Medieval Women Play - Nicola F McDonald
language: English
title: The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception (Chaucer Studies)
titlecomplete: The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception (Chaucer Studies) (Volume 36)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: D.S. Brewer