How the Woman Makes the Man: Chaucer's Reciprocal Fictions in Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Crocker, Holly A.
How the Woman Makes the Man: Chaucer's Reciprocal Fictions in Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 139-64.
- Description
- Seen in light of external texts that establish the medieval rhetoric of feminine virtue, Criseyde's betrayal reflects betrayal of the patriarchal culture that sets up expectations for feminine conduct and that uses a woman such as Criseyde for its own purposes.
- Alternative Title
- New Perspectives on Criseyde.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.