In Defense of Criseyde: A Modern 'Scientific Heroine'

Author / Editor
Sanderlin, George.

Title
In Defense of Criseyde: A Modern 'Scientific Heroine'

Published
USF Language Quarterly 24 (1986): 47-48.

Description
Contrary to contentions of A. C. Spearing and others that Criseyde is a passive heroine "at the mercy of events," Criseyde is a decisive figure who actively takes charge of her own destiny. She is representative of emerging "scientific" intellectual tendencies to weigh new propositions on the basis of their observable merits and relative values rather than judging them on the basis of received truths.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.