ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer during the fourteenth century.

Detailed explanation-2: -Like the The Canterbury Tales, The Legend of Good Women is a collection of different narratives, and some scholars have noted that writing the poem may have given Chaucer the opportunity to practise knitting a series of narratives together, which is what he later did to great effect in The Canterbury Tales.

Detailed explanation-3: -The poem recounts the stories of ten virtuous women of history and myth who were martyrs for love throughout nine sections. The ten women are Cleopatra, Thisbe, Dido, Hypsipyle, Medea, Lucrece, Ariadne, Philomela, Phyllis, and Hypermnestra. The poem is written in the tradition of medieval love poetry.

Detailed explanation-4: -The poet recounts ten stories of virtuous women in nine sections: Cleopatra, Thisbe, Medea, Phyllis, Hypsipyle, Ariadne, Lucretia, Philomene, Hypermnestra, Dido.

Detailed explanation-5: -Geoffrey Chaucer was one of the best English poets of all time, considered a father of English language and literature. Before the likes of Shakespeare, Chaucer dominated the literary scene, most famous for his work ‘The Canterbury Tales’.