Republican Chaucer: Lucan, Lucrece, and the Legend of Good Women

The life and work of the Roman poet Lucan functions as an important intertext for Chaucer's . It demonstrates that the and the were widely available in medieval Europe and that Chaucer likely used both sources in both the Prologue to the and the “Legend of Lucrece.” Chaucer uses Lucan as a mode...

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Published in:Comparative literature 2017-06, Vol.69 (2), p.160-180
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Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400)
Intertextuality
Literary Criticism
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Literature and Literary Studies
Lucan (39-65)
Medieval literature
Middle English
Poetics
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Political dissent
Royalty
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