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Boboc, Andrew.   ChauR 47.1 (2012): 63-83.
Suggests Chaucer's portrayal of Criseyde challenges the "traditional 'descriptio' as a restrictive benchmark of feminine beauty." Describes Criseyde's transformations in TC as an "experiential journey through love and war."

Pearsall, Derek.   John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987), pp. 17-29.
Analyzes TC 2.449-62, 3.568-81, and 5.1016-29 to show syntactically "the process by which Criseyde exercises her will, makes a choice, without acknowledging (it)...while preserving her image...as a passive instrument of forces greater than herself"…

Boatner, Janet Williams.   DAI 31.08 (1971): 4705A.
Includes chapters on Benoît, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Henryson, Shakespeare, and Dryden, treating Chaucer's Criseyde as "the most delightful of them all"--a character of "infinite complexity and infinite charm."

Mitchell, J. Allan.   Ann W. Astell and J. A. Jackson, eds. Levinas and Medieval Literature: The "Difficult Reading" of English and Rabbinic Texts (Pittsburgh, Penn.: Duquesne University Press, 2009), pp. 185-206.
Reads courtly love in TC through a Levinasian lens: courtly desire is ethical because it is never satisfied. Yet, Criseyde's case disallows a direct application of Levinasian ethical theory. Mitchell comments on the role of fortune in TC, the…

Hanson, Thomas B.   Notes and Queries 216 (1971): 285-86.
Comments on Chaucer's interest in the physiognomic implications of Criseyde's joined eyebrows in relation to his sources.

Clogan, Paul M.   Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 13.1 (1985): 18-28.
A shortened version of a paper in Medievalia et Humanistica 12 (1984): 167-85.

Daly, Saralyn R.   Notes and Queries 208 (1963): 442-44.
Maintains that anachronistic details of Criseyde's address to night in TC 3.1429-42 deviate from traditional albas and indicate that she "challenges God" in favor of her own will, indicated by her unorthodox attitude toward Providence.

Knapp, Peggy A.   Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 231-54.
Knapp examines how Chaucer makes Criseyde beautiful to his audience (then and now) and how critical readings of her character rely on cultural constructs of aesthetic beauty.

Anderson, J. J.   Notes and Queries 236 (1991): 160-61.
TC 1.78-82 is based on Machaut's Le jugement du roy de Behaigne and his Remede de fortune.

Cartlidge, Neil.   Chaucer Review 44 (2010): 227-45.
Chaucer's evocation of contrasting senses of "frend" sharpens his depiction of Criseyde's precarious state in Troy. Lacking advisors, and thus dangerously dependent on Pandarus and Troilus, she also belongs to a network of relationships devoted…

Hodges, Laura F.   Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 37-58.
Hodges analyzes Criseyde's costume rhetoric, comparing details of her dress (and how it changes throughout the work) with mourning customs of late fourteenth-century England.

Taylor, Ann M.   American Notes and Queries 17 (1978): 18-19.
In Criseyde's debate on whether to take Troilus as a lover (2.598-812), the word "thought" occurs fourteen times, the most dense usage in the poem, reflective of Criseyde's practice of thinking before acting. In contrast, "thought" in Troilus' case…

Bauer, Kate A.   Comitatus 19 (1988): 1-19.
Widespread acceptance of C. S. Lewis's belief that Criseyde's ruling passion is fear has resulted in a limited version of her motivation, for an equally powerful force, "routhe," works sometimes with and sometimes against her fear. The two forces…

Schibanoff, Susan.   Journal of English and Germanic Philology 76 (1977): 326-33.
Criseyde's "aubes" of TC, III and IV, wherein she swears her constancy to Troilus, ironically recall the "impossibilia" of anti-feminist lying-songs, which warned men not to put trust in women.

Aers, David.   Chaucer Review 13 (1979): 177-200.
Chaucer sets up Criseyde's behavior, from first love to betrayal, as a reflection on woman's perilous social state. In so doing he questions the judgment passed on her by a male-centered society and religion, even though it is represented in his own…

Powrie, Sarah.   New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 2.1 (2021): 18-33.
Confronts the humor and "problematic sexual biases evident” in TC. Focuses on the consummation scene of Book III and the ways that "#MeToo activism" can inform a conversational pedagogy for engaging with the text, including analysis of the…

Sanok, Catherine.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 20 (1998): 41-71.
Explores the allusions to Statius's "Thebaid" in TC and identifies several structural similarities between the poems. Criseyde's reading of the epic and Cassandre's summary of it depict female consciousness of history and awareness of the…

Sanyal, Jharna.   Journal of the Department of English (University of Calcutta) 22 (1986-87): 72-89.
Chaucer's portrayal of Criseyde had to remain true to Boccaccio's account of her as a betrayer of Troilus, both underlining and undercutting her traditional character and conveying Boethius's idea of the nature of "human felicite."

Everhart, Deborah.   Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Feminea Medievalia I: Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Academia Press, 1993), pp. 23-42.
Uses Heidegger's language concerning the "concealing" and "unconcealing" of truth to examine the narrative layers through which readers interpret Criseyde's character. Criseyde's speeches subtly but forcefully unconceal her own "trouthe," raising…

Doyle, Kara A.   Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 75-110.
In Book 2 of TC, Criseyde gains subjectivity as a "reader" of Antigone's song. Although the narrator encourages female readers to "read like men" by identifying with Troilus, Margaret More Roper, in a letter to her father Sir Thomas More, aligns…

Marzec, Marcia Smith, and Cindy L. Vitto.   Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 181-206.
Modern psychological analysis of the codependent personality reveals the enigmatic nature of much of Criseyde's behavior. Her drive to please and the absence of healthy boundaries in relationships with others indicate that she lacks a clear sense of…

Saito, Tomoko.   Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 355-69.
Examines Criseyde in light of medieval social and religious ideals of femininity.

Leon Sendra, Antonio R.   Antonio Leon Sendra, Maria C. Casares Trillo, and Maria M. Rivas Carmona, eds. Second International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Cordoba: Universidad de Cordoba, 1993), pp. 114-25.
Examines a series of passsages that characterize Criseyde's relations with her lovers.

Danobeitia, Maria L.   Antonio Leon Sendra, Maria C. Casares Trillo, and Maria M. Rivas Carmona, eds. Second International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Cordoba: Universidad de Cordoba, 1993), pp. 36-43.
Criseyde rejects the values of courtly love that Troilus embraces. In her relation with Diomede, Criseyde rejects courtly love and its attachment to death in favor of a life-affirming love.

Slocum, Sally K.   Neuphilolgische Mitteilungen 87 (1986): 365-74.
Despite previous treatment by critics, Criseyde is a pitiable character and a "good citizen of Troy." The treatment she receives at the hands of her own relatives, the Trojans, and the Greeks justifies her unfaithfulness to Troilus.
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