The Intertextual Cressida: Chaucer's Henryson or Henryson's Chaucer?

Author / Editor
Storm, Melvin.

Title
The Intertextual Cressida: Chaucer's Henryson or Henryson's Chaucer?

Published
Studies in Scottish Literature 28 (1993): 105-22.

Description
Chaucer's moral judgment of Troilus may be uncertain, and his judgment of Criseyde is definitely uncertain. Readers have attempted to clarify these judgments by appeals outside the text to law and theology; however, reading Henryson's "Testament" as a continuation of Chaucer with close attention to the intertextual connections makes clear that both Troilus and Criseyde are ameliorated.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.