Henryson's 'Testament of Cresseid': Part of the Chaucerian Tradition?
- Author / Editor
- Kohl, Stephan.
Henryson's 'Testament of Cresseid': Part of the Chaucerian Tradition?
- Published
- Roderick J. Lyall and Felicity Riddy, eds. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance) (Stirling/Glasgow: Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, 1981), pp. 285-98.
- Description
- Aruges that in its depiction of love Henryson's "Cresseid" is more a Renaissance poem than a medieval one. Though its subject matter and verse form follow Chaucer, the poem gives license "to love a human being for his or her own sake--not for God's sake."
- Alternative Title
- Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Troilus and Criseyde.