Whatever Happened to Criseyde? Henryson's 'Testament of Cresseid'
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Lesley.
Whatever Happened to Criseyde? Henryson's 'Testament of Cresseid'
- Published
- Keith Busby and Erik Kooper, eds. Courtly Literature: Culture and Context. Selected Papers from the 5th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, Dalfsen, The Netherlands, 9-16 August, 1986 (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1990), pp. 313-21.
- Description
- Reads Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," not as a "sequel" to TC, but as a "further displacement of the history of Troy," one that "questions the value of the vicarious experience of reading" fiction, particularly as it is realized in the character of Cresseid. In TC, the character's reputation is known; in Henryson, it is destabilized.
- Alternative Title
- Courtly Literature: Culture and Context: Selected Papers from the 5th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, Dalfsen, The Netherlands, 9-16 August, 1986.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Troilus and Criseyde