Revisiting Troilus's Faint

Author / Editor
Mieszkowski, Gretchen.

Title
Revisiting Troilus's Faint

Published
Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 43-57.

Description
Mieszkowski surveys masculine lovers in medieval romance, showing that fainting and passive love "acquired feminine gender" only after the fourteenth century. Modern discussions of TC that treat Troilus as "feminized" both mistake his role as an idealized lover (not a "result driven" one such as Diomedes) and overlook medieval nuances in the consummation scene.

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

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde