Abandoned Women : Re-Writing the Classics in Dante, Boccaccio, & Chaucer

Introduction Abandoned Women and Medieval Tradition 1(20) ONE Ovid's Heroides and the Latin Middle Ages 21(26) TWO Statius's Achilleid and Dante's Canto of Ulysses Fraud, Rhetoric, and Abandoned Women 47(28) THREE Boccaccio's Teseo, Chaucer's Theseus Duplicity and Desire 75(27) FOUR Abandoned Women and the Dynamics of Reader Response Boccaccio's Amorosa Visione and Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta 102(28) FIVE Chancer's Troilus and Criseyde Re-gendering Abandonment 130(29) SIX Chaucer's Heroides The Legend of Good Women 159(28) Afterword The Metamorphoses of Ovid's Heroines 187(6) Appendix "Deidamia Achilu," ed. Stohlmann 193(4) Bibliography 197(12) Index 209