Re-reading/Re-teaching Chaucer's Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Chewning, Susannah.
Re-reading/Re-teaching Chaucer's Criseyde
- Published
- Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 165-80.
- Description
- To alleviate disappointment at Criseyde's lack of agency, readers should appreciate her not as a "real" woman but as an embodiment of the medieval masculine imagination. Criseyde follows the pattern of many of Chaucer's female characters: caught in a moment of crisis, faced with a crucial decision.
- Alternative Title
- New Perspectives on Criseyde.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.