Criseyde's Honor: Interiority and Public Identity in Chaucer's Courtly Romance
- Author / Editor
- Collette, Carolyn P.
Criseyde's Honor: Interiority and Public Identity in Chaucer's Courtly Romance
- Published
- Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox, eds. Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture: Selected Papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 47-55.
- Description
- Criseyde's status as a widow and her self-conscious concern with her "honour" and "estat" help characterize her as someone "concerned with maintaining herself and her household as independent units." Her inconstancy is a rational response to her social and political context.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture: Selected Papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.