'That I was born, alas': Criseyde's Weary Dawn Song in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Beidler, Peter G.

Title
'That I was born, alas': Criseyde's Weary Dawn Song in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 255-76.

Description
Challenges R. E. Kaske's argument that Criseyde's aube is appropriate for a male speaker and suggests that her words indicate anxious weariness, perhaps even a death wish.

Alternative Title
New Perspectives on Criseyde.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.