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Why does the god of love order Geoffrey Chaucer to write Legend of Good Women?
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Geoffrey Chaucer
English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales.
In the "Prologue" to the Legend of Good Women, the god of love expresses anger toward Geoffrey Chaucer for his previous literary works, which depicted many women who betrayed men. As a form of penance for these writings, the god of love instructs Chaucer to compose a work focused on "good women" instead.12