The Lover's Gaze in Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Stanbury, Sarah.

Title
The Lover's Gaze 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. 224-38.

Description
Troilus and Criseyde fall in love through looking, here analyzed through medieval optical science, as a literary convention, and as a gendered social taboo. Stanbury contrasts the activity, passivity, and willfulness of Criseyde's gaze with that of Troilus.

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

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.