Apologia pro Criseyde: 'Of Harmes Two, the Lesse Is for to Chese
- Author / Editor
- Valentine, Virginia Walker.
Apologia pro Criseyde: 'Of Harmes Two, the Lesse Is for to Chese
- Published
- Virginia Walker Valentine. Chaucer's Knight: A Man Ther Was (Tampa, Fla.: Axelrod, 1994), pp. 25-33.
- Description
- Though there are elements of courtly love in TC, the poem does not evaluate Criseyde by courtly standards. Instead, it shows her choosing the "lesser harm" of being unfaithful rather than endangered.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Knight: A Man Ther Was.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.