'A Mannes Game': Criseyde's Masculinity in Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Weisl, Angela Jane.
'A Mannes Game': Criseyde's Masculinity 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. 115-31.
- Description
- Criseyde shows more of a "mannes herte" than does Troilus in the consummation scene of TC. Throughout the poem, she chooses masculine, active self-interest rather than feminine, passive submission. In characterizing Criseyde, TC explores and exploits several oppositions--dishonor/death, masculine/feminine, epic/romance, Greece/Troy, war/love--thereby destabilizing gender.
- Alternative Title
- Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde