Criseyde's Oaths of Love: Do They Really Belong to the Tradition of Lying-Songs?
- Author / Editor
- Cioffi, Caron Ann.
Criseyde's Oaths of Love: Do They Really Belong to the Tradition of Lying-Songs?
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 87 (1988): 522-34.
- Description
- Susan Schibanoff (JEGP, 1977) is in error when she argues that the "impossibilia" testifying to Criseyde's love (TC 3.1492-98) suggests the medieval genre of the antifeminist lying-song. Rather, such "impossibilia" belong in a courtly context, and the audience would have understood them as sincere. Their recurrence in Bk. 5 shows "how much unfailing love has failed."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.