Sickness unto Death: Crime and Punishment in Henryson's 'The Testament of Cresseid'
- Author / Editor
- Volk-Birke, Sabine.
Sickness unto Death: Crime and Punishment in Henryson's 'The Testament of Cresseid'
- Published
- Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 113 (1995): 163-83.
- Description
- Considers Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" as a tragedy and the role of writing in the demise of the central character. Also explores medieval attitudes toward leprosy, versions of the Criseyde story before Henryson, and Henryson's debt to Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion