Figuring Criseyde's 'Entente': Authority, Narrative, and Chaucer's Use of History

Author / Editor
Campbell, Jennifer.

Title
Figuring Criseyde's 'Entente': Authority, Narrative, and Chaucer's Use of History

Published
Chaucer Review 27 (1993): 342-58.

Description
Examines the ambiguous character of Criseyde in TC 4. Chaucer gives her a point of view only to call her morality into question and he provides a sense of history that he never allows her fully to understand. TC is a "feminist work that fails to liberate women."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.