Criseyde's Beauty: Chaucer and Aesthetics

Author / Editor
Knapp, Peggy A.

Title
Criseyde's Beauty: Chaucer and Aesthetics

Published
Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 231-54.

Description
Knapp examines how Chaucer makes Criseyde beautiful to his audience (then and now) and how critical readings of her character rely on cultural constructs of aesthetic beauty.

Alternative Title
New Perspectives on Criseyde.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.