'The Dreams in Which I'm Dying': Sublimation and Unstable Masculinities in Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Koppelman, Kate.

Title
'The Dreams in Which I'm Dying': Sublimation and Unstable Masculinities in 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. 97-114.

Description
Criseyde is the "fullest subjectivity" in TC. Her resistance to Troilus's fantasy demonstrates the "constructed nature of masculinity" as shifting and dependent posturing. Koppelman explores Criseyde's confrontations with the "opaque network" of systems of signification that her role as courtly lady entails.

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

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde