The Legend of Good Women
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The Legend of Good Women is a late 14th-century poem by Geoffrey Chaucer that presents a series of narratives about virtuous women from classical and medieval literature, framed by an allegorical prologue.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Middle English poem
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narrative poem → poem → |
| alsoKnownAs |
Legend of Good Women
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| author |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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| basedOn |
classical literature
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medieval literature → |
| centralTheme |
courtly love
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female constancy in love → literary authority → reputation of women → virtue of women → |
| commissionedBy |
Alceste
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Cupid → |
| containsStoryOf |
Ariadne
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Cleopatra → Dido → Hypermnestra → Hypsipyle → Lucrece → Medea → Philomela → Phyllis → Thisbe → |
| countryOfOrigin |
England
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| dateWritten |
late 14th century
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| featuresCharacter |
Alceste
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Cupid → the dreamer-narrator → |
| form |
verse
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| genre |
frame narrative
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hagiographic narrative → legend collection → |
| hasPart |
Prologue to The Legend of Good Women
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| influencedBy |
Boccaccio
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Ovid → |
| language |
Middle English
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| literaryMovement |
medieval literature
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| literaryPeriod |
Middle Ages
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| manuscriptTradition |
incomplete
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| meter |
iambic pentameter
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| narrativeFrame |
allegorical prologue
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| narrativePerspective |
first-person narrator
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| relatedWork |
The Canterbury Tales
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Troilus and Criseyde → |
| scholarlyDebate |
authenticity of prologues
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order and completeness of legends → |
| settingOfPrologue |
dream vision
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| structure |
series of legends about women
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| verseForm |
rhyme royal
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Referenced by (4)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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The Legend of Good Women
("Legend of Good Women")
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alsoKnownAs |
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Ricardian poets
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associatedWithWork |
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The Legend of Good Women
("Prologue to The Legend of Good Women")
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hasPart |
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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notableWork |