The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer during the fourteenth century. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's...
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consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter. Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury...
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Geoffrey Chaucer (redirect from The father of English literature)
diplomat, and member of parliament. Among Chaucer's many other works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and...
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followed the general plan of Boccaccio's work On Famous Women in The Legend of Good Women. The Knight's Tale uses Boccaccio's Teseida and the Filostrato...
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poem, "The Legend of Good Women" features Alcestis as a character in both versions of the Prologue. In the poem, she is consort to the God of Love and...
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The first time is in the Introduction (Prologue) to The Legend of Good Women: "He made the book that hight the Hous of Fame, / And eke the Deeth of Blaunche...
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Frame story (section Casting doubt on the narrator)
Geoffrey Chaucer used it in The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, Parlement of Foules, and The Legend of Good Women (the last also containing a multi-story...
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one-third of Le Roman. There is little doubt that Chaucer did translate Le Roman de la Rose under the title The Romaunt of the Rose: in The Legend of Good Women...
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Pyramus and Thisbe (redirect from Thisbe (Greek legend))
attention by dropping pieces of stone and straw through the crack. In the 1380s, Geoffrey Chaucer, in his The Legend of Good Women, and John Gower, in his...
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