Criseyde: Woman in Medieval Society
- Author / Editor
- Aers, David.
Criseyde: Woman in Medieval Society
- Published
- Chaucer Review 13 (1979): 177-200.
- Description
- Chaucer sets up Criseyde's behavior, from first love to betrayal, as a reflection on woman's perilous social state. In so doing he questions the judgment passed on her by a male-centered society and religion, even though it is represented in his own palinode.
- Also published as "Chaucer's Criseyde: Woman in Society, Woman in Love," in Thomas C. Stillinger, ed., Critical Essays on Geoffrey Chaucer (New York: G. K. Hall, 1998), pp. 195-218.
- Alternative Title
- "Chaucer's Criseyde: Woman in Society, Woman in Love."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.