Deiphoebus Betrayed: Virgilian Decorum, Chaucerian Feminism

Author / Editor
Fleming, John V.

Title
Deiphoebus Betrayed: Virgilian Decorum, Chaucerian Feminism

Published
Chaucer Review 21 (1986): 182-99.

Description
The rich Virgilian background of TC brings into focus Hector and Deiphoebus--bound to Troilus by brotherly love and manipulated by Pandarus--and the parallel perfidies of Helen and Criseyde. In TC, the betrayal of Deiphoebus is "a feminist invention...that questions a clearly established male tradition" (p. 197).

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.