How Criseyde Falls in Love

Author / Editor
Bowers, John M.

Title
How Criseyde Falls in Love

Published
Nathaniel B. Smith and Joseph T. Snow, eds. The Expansion and Transformation of Courtly Literature (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980), pp. 141-55.

Description
The visual image of Troilus on his horse, which Criseyde sees from her window, is connected to the earlier image of Troilus as a horse. The horse image, with its suggestions of lust and pride, is associated with both Troilus and Criseyde.

Contributor
Smith, Nathaniel B.,
Snow, Joseph T.,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
The Expansion and Transformation of Courtly Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.