'O brotel wele of mannes joie unstable!': Gender and Philosophy in Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Nair, Sashi.
'O brotel wele of mannes joie unstable!': Gender and Philosophy in Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Parergon 23.2 (2006): 35-56.
- Description
- Explores Criseyde's "Boethian pragmatism" and her agency in TC, considering how they conflict with social gender-based social constraints and the constraints of the romance genre. The "incompatibility of Boethian philosophy and the romance genre result in Criseyde's exclusion from the poem's ending."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.