Legendary Women: Alceste and Criseyde Within 'Boundes They Oghte Keepe'

Author / Editor
Walker-Pelkey, Faye.

Title
Legendary Women: Alceste and Criseyde Within 'Boundes They Oghte Keepe'

Published
South Central Review 8 (1991): 19-35.

Description
Constructed in contrast to Criseyde of TC, and despite the narrator's veneration, Alceste of LGWP is an unacceptable model for womankind. Even though she is usually regarded as self-serving, Criseyde is a positive model in TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.
Troilus and Criseyde.