Hidden Depths: Dialogue and Characterization in Chaucer and Malory

Author / Editor
Schroeder, Peter R.

Title
Hidden Depths: Dialogue and Characterization in Chaucer and Malory

Published
PMLA 98 (1983): 374-87.

Description
With Chaucer's Criseyde (as with Malory's Guinevere), readers are forced to construct her character from the "implicature" of her acts and words rather than deduce it from explicit and consistent statements.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.