'Who Made This Song?': The Engendering of Lyric Counterplots in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Kinney, Clare Regan.

Title
'Who Made This Song?': The Engendering of Lyric Counterplots in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Studies in Philology 89 (1992): 272-92.

Description
In contrast to the 'Filostrato,' TC gives lyrical expression to both male and female speakers. Antigone's song is central to the female lyrical discourse in TC, establishing a "poetics of presence" that culminates in the poem's closing concern with the Virgin Mary.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.