Chaucer's Much Loved Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Mieszkowski, Gretchen.
Chaucer's Much Loved Criseyde
- Published
- Chaucer Review 26 (1991): 109-32.
- Description
- In contrast to the strong heroines in French romances, Criseyde is a weak, passive individual who does not act but is acted upon. Chaucer creates her this way deliberately to make her "magically attractive"--she is "lovely undefined responsiveness," which is irresistible to all men. Thus, she is a "flawed ideal" and under difficult circumstances will fall.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.