The Birth of Criseyde--An Exemplary Triangle: 'Classical' Troilus and the Question of Love at the Anglo-Norman Court
- Author / Editor
- Antonelli, Roberto.
The Birth of Criseyde--An Exemplary Triangle: 'Classical' Troilus and the Question of Love at the Anglo-Norman Court
- Published
- Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 21-48.
- Description
- Compares the treatment of love in the "Roman de Thebes," "Brut," and "Eneas" to that in Benoit's "Roman de Troie," a twelfth-century romance and apparently the first work to introduce Briseis-Cressida. A product of Anglo-Norman love debate, Benoit's Briseis is more a complex, contradictory character than a negative exemplum. Later writers, including Guido and Boccaccio, emphasize her negative aspects and inconstancy.
- Alternative Title
- The European Tragedy of Troilus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.