'Slyding' Masculinity in the Four Portraits of Troilus

Author / Editor
Dietrich, Stephanie.

Title
'Slyding' Masculinity in the Four Portraits of Troilus

Published
Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the "Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Criseyde" (Toronto, Buffalo, and New York: University of Toronto Press, 1998), pp. 205-20.

Description
The characterization of the male hero in the four portraits of Troilus exhibits "gender slippage" through "linguistic slippage." The second and third portraits show Chaucer subverting gender assumptions, while the other two are more "essentialized" depictions of masculinity.

Alternative Title
Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the "Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Criseyde."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.