Tereus, Procne, and Her Sister: Chaucer's Representation of Criseyde as a Victim
- Author / Editor
- Wittig, Joseph S.
Tereus, Procne, and Her Sister: Chaucer's Representation of Criseyde as a Victim
- Published
- T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 117-32.
- Description
- Reads Chaucer's allusion to Tereus, Procne, and Philomela in TC as an "ethical and moral" gloss on his own poem, generating tensions between the refined love of Troilus and Criseyde and the raw passions in Ovid. Also comments on source relations between TC and both Petrarch's "Zephiro torna" and Dante's Purgatorio.
- Alternative Title
- Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.