Being a Man in 'Piers Plowman' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Calabrese, Michael.

Title
Being a Man in 'Piers Plowman' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec,eds. Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 161-82.

Description
Focusing on failures of the male body depicted in the consummation scene of TC and in the autobiographical episode of the C-text, Calabrese compares Troilus of TC and Will of "Piers Plowman" as masculine questors in search of truth. Pandarus "roughly corresponds" to Langland's Recklessness and Criseyde to his Lady Meed.

Alternative Title
Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde