Criseyde's Poem: The Anxieties of the Classical Tradition

Author / Editor
Fleming, John V.

Title
Criseyde's Poem: The Anxieties of the Classical Tradition

Published
Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 277-98.

Description
Against the backdrop of two of his own studies exploring the classical roots of TC, Fleming argues that Chaucer subverts gender stereotypes and the force of literary tradition as much as he can by giving Criseyde a measure of agency and by depicting Deiphoebus as betrayed not by Helen but by Pandarus.

Alternative Title
New Perspectives on Criseyde.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.