Criseyde's Remains : Romance and the Question of Justice
- Author / Editor
- Margherita, Gayle.
Criseyde's Remains : Romance and the Question of Justice
- Published
- Exemplaria 12: 257-92, 2000.
- Description
- Considers how "history becomes the unconscious of romance" in TC. Criseyde is pronounced dead at the opening of the work (1.56) but does not die in the story; as a "symptom of the poem's disavowal of history and materiality, she also marks its radical undecidability." She does die in Henryson's anti-romance, "Testament of Cresseid"--in a fantasy of justice that depends on time, a promise "that it is never yet what it will have been."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.