Cresseid Excused: A Re-Reading of Henryson's 'Testament of Cresseid'

Author / Editor
Cullen, Mairi Ann.

Title
Cresseid Excused: A Re-Reading of Henryson's 'Testament of Cresseid'

Published
Studies in Scottish Literature 20 (1985): 137-59.

Description
Henryson's preface to the "Testament of Cresseid" is to be taken seriously. Having read Chaucer, he picked up "an euther quair" that portrays Cresseid as a whore. His poem therefore accurately reflects a contemporary apologia for his heroine.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.