Henryson's 'Ballet Schort': A Virgin Reading of 'The Testament of Cresseid'

Author / Editor
Quinn, William A.

Title
Henryson's 'Ballet Schort': A Virgin Reading of 'The Testament of Cresseid'

Published
Studies in Scottish Literature 31 (1999): 232-44.

Description
Reads Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" as a "compilatio" addressed to an audience of women, gauging the tone, theme, and unity of the poem. Includes recurrent comments on Henryson's uses of Chaucer's attitudes and perspectives, especially those derived from TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.