'Our owen wo to drynke': Loss, Gender, and Chivalry in Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Fradenburg, Louise O.

Title
'Our owen wo to drynke': Loss, Gender, and Chivalry in Troilus and Criseyde

Published
R. A. Shoaf, ed. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: "Subgit to alle Poesye": Essays in Criticism. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, no. 104. Pegasus Paperbacks, no. 10 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992), pp. 88-106.

Description
Examines the roles of loss and violence in the construction of feminine figures in chivalric literature, considering such constructions in light of fourteenth-century social history. In TC, Chaucer considers the relation between heroism and suffering and explores how and why Criseyde has been shaped by her world to consent to violence without recourse to ennobling complaint.

Alternative Title
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: "Subgit to alle Poesye": Essays in Criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.