(Mis)Reading the 'Text' of Criseyde : Context and Identity in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Warren, Victoria.

Title
(Mis)Reading the 'Text' of Criseyde : Context and Identity in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Chaucer Review 36: 1-15, 2001.

Description
Troilus cannot read the "text" of Criseyde's face because he is too self-absorbed. Thinking only of what she can do for him, he neglects her "context," fails to acknowledge her vulnerability, and thinks of her as an "image in stasis." Although critics have been willing to accept Troilus's critique, Chaucer expects the reader to go deeper.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.