Lady Godiva

Daniel G. Donoghue is Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of Style in Old English Poetry (1987) and co-editor, with Seamus Heaney, of Beowulf: A Verse Translation (2002). He is also the author of the chapter on Lady Godiva in Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century (eds Donald Scragg and Carole Weinberg, 2000).

• Acknowledgements. List of Illustrations.List of Abbreviations.Introduction.1. Godgifu of Mercia.2. Godiva Emerges.3. Godiva's Progress.4. Peeping Tom.5. Godiva Domesticated.6. Godiva Displayed.Notes.Bibliography.Index.

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