Criseyde's Prudence
- Author / Editor
- McAlpine, Monica E.
Criseyde's Prudence
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25: 199-224, 2003.
- Description
- In her "active suffering," Criseyde reflects a Boethian notion of agency. In her prudential counseling of Troilus, she properly dissuades him from "treasonable elopement in time of war." The article explores how Criseyde's advice to Troilus and her later commentary on Prudence (TC 5.744-49) reflect her fundamental "trouthe." McAlpine contrasts Criseyde's perspectives with those of Troilus, Calkas, and Cassandra to disclose Chaucer's anxieties about how knowledge of the future can distort ethical judgment.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.