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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.
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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 -- PoetryPeople
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THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN [EasyRead Large Edition]
November 1, 2006, ReadHowYouWant.com
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THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN (Large Print)
November 1, 2006, ReadHowYouWant.com
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The Legend of Good Women
July 18, 2005, Adamant Media Corporation
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The Legend Of Good Women
June 30, 2004, Kessinger Publishing
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The legend of good women
1995, Colleagues Press, Michigan State University Press
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0937191345 9780937191347
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The Legend of Good Women (Medieval Texts and Studies, No 16)
July 1995, Michigan State University Press
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Legend of Good Women: Written in Praise of Women Faithful in Love (An Exposition-University Book)
December 1983, Exposition Pr of Florida
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0682483850 9780682483858
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The legend of good women: written in praise of women faithful in love
1976, Exposition Press
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Bibliography: p. [163]-173.
Includes index.
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