Introduction
Part I. Chaucer's Good Woman: 1. The good woman: the daisy
2. Alceste: the good woman of legend
3. The good woman: a legendary beast? Part II. The God of Love: 4. The God of love
5. The accusation
6. The defence: tyrants of Lombardy
7. The defence: Matere and Entente
Part III. The Palinode: The Legends of a Good Woman: 8. Ariadne: the ladies and the critics
9. Medea: the ladies and their reputations
10. Cleopatra: legend of Cupid's saint
11. Dido: composite woman
12. Lucrece: too good to be true? 13. Phyllis and inherited male perfidy
Part IV. The Legend as Courtly Game: Epilogue.

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