Rewriting Woman Evil? Antifeminism and Its Hermeneutic Problems in Four Criseida Stories

Author / Editor
Park, Yoon-hee.

Title
Rewriting Woman Evil? Antifeminism and Its Hermeneutic Problems in Four Criseida Stories

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 1796A.

Description
Chaucer's TC responds to antifeminsit treatment of the Criseida character, especially Boccaccio's; Henryson's version replies to Chaucer.
Shakespeare's Cressida offers a different antifeminist view, recast without basic change by Dryden.
Criseida continues to fascinate through her varying images.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.