The Double Role of Criseyde in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Cook, Mary Joan,RSM.

Title
The Double Role of Criseyde in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Florilegium 8 (1986): 187-98.

Description
"By developing an inner and outer Criseyde, by occasionally indicating a disparity between the two, by raising questions about her behaviour and usually acknowledging that he, the narrator, does not have the answers, (Chaucer) convinces the reader that Criseyde is somehow inscrutable."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.