Henryson's 'Ballet Schort': A Virgin Reading of 'The Testament of Cresseid'
- Author / Editor
- Quinn, William A.
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.