Criseyde Alone

Author / Editor
Wetherbee, Winthrop.

Title
Criseyde Alone

Published
Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. pp. 299-332.

Description
Revisiting his own "Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde," Wetherbee argues that Criseyde is in many ways a more complex, mature, and heroic character than is Troilus. Troilus, the narrator of TC, and especially the narrator of Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" exhibit wounded masculine vanity by refusing to acknowledge Criseyde as an individuated self or to understand the precarious nature of her plight.

Alternative Title
New Perspectives on Criseyde.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.