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...

texts mention the Wyrds as a group, with Geoffrey Chaucer referring to them as "the Werdys that we clepyn Destiné" in The Legend of Good Women. A goddess...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Boccaccio in On Famous Women and in his Decameron, and in English in the 1380s by Geoffrey Chaucer, in his The Legend of Good Women, and John Gower, in his...

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...

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...

Erika (1990). The Legend of Good Women: Medieval Women in Towns & Cities. Moyer Bell Limited. ISBN 978-1-55921-013-3. Archived from the original on 2023-07-01...