Between the Living and the Dead : Widows as Heroines of Medieval Romances
- Author / Editor
- Hayward, Rebecca.
Between the Living and the Dead : Widows as Heroines of Medieval Romances
- Published
- Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl, eds. Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), pp. 221-43.
- Description
- Assesses Criseyde in TC and other widowed protagonists in medieval romances (Roman de Thèbes, Chértien's Yvain), exploring how "necessity of possession and ideals of chastity" are the prevailing stereotypes of the literary tradition. Unlike Boccaccio's Criseida, Chaucer's Criseyde escapes these stereotypes.
- Alternative Title
- Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.