Briseis, Briseida, Criseyde, Cresseid, Cressid
- Author / Editor
- Donaldson, E. Talbot.
Briseis, Briseida, Criseyde, Cresseid, Cressid
- Published
- Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 3-12.
- Description
- Other enduring attributes of the Criseyde character complicate and perhaps mitigate her infidelity. From the start, as Homer's Briseis, she engages sympathy as a woman unwillingly transferred from one man to another. Dares made Briseida attractive; Benoit realized her sense of insecurity.
- Later Criseydes, Boccaccio's, Chaucer's, Henryson's, are frankly passionate. Shakespeare emphasized her lack of security and her high sexuality. Only Chaucer and Shakespeare understood that Criseyde, treated like a pawn, could not behave like a queen.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.