The Origins of Criseyde

Author / Editor
Mapstone, Sally.

Title
The Origins of Criseyde

Published
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne et al., eds. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain: Essays for Felicity Riddy (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), pp. 131-47.

Description
Although the love affair between Criseyde and Troilus is a medieval invention, Criseyde had a significant literary ancestry. In Latin versions of the Iliad, in Ovid's Heroides and Ars amatoria, and in the later romance tradition, Chryseis-Briseis-Briseida-Criseyde is interesting for the ways she is--or is not--represented as possessing a "distinctive speaking voice."

Alternative Title
Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain: Essays for Felicity Riddy.

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