Moral Pattern in The Testament of Cresseid

Author / Editor
Twycross-Martin, Henrietta.

Title
Moral Pattern in The Testament of Cresseid

Published
Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen, eds. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. King's College London Medieval Studies, no. 5 (London: King's College Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991), pp. 30-50.

Description
Considers The Testament of Cresseid as a "parallel text" to TC 5, arguing that although Henryson echoes various Chaucerian collocations, techniques, and structures, his counterpointing of fickle and stable earthly love is unlike Chaucer's opposition of earthly and heavenly love.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.