Chaucer's Criseyde and Eurydice

Author / Editor
Valdes Miyares, Ruben.

Title
Chaucer's Criseyde and Eurydice

Published
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 2 (1992): 142-53.

Description
Explores Chaucer's understanding of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth to argue that Criseyde's reference to Eurydice (TC 4.791) is the poet's way of "lending voice" to a classical figure who, like Criseyde, was the object of barter.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.