Criseyde's 'widewes habit large of samyt broun' in Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Hodges, Laura F.

Title
Criseyde's 'widewes habit large of samyt broun' in Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 37-58.

Description
Hodges analyzes Criseyde's costume rhetoric, comparing details of her dress (and how it changes throughout the work) with mourning customs of late fourteenth-century England.

Alternative Title
New Perspectives on Criseyde.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.