Shamed Guiltless: Criseyde, Dido, and Chaucerian Ethics

Author / Editor
McTaggart, Anne.

Title
Shamed Guiltless: Criseyde, Dido, and Chaucerian Ethics

Published
ChauR 46.4 (2012): 371-402.

Description
Examines shame as a force in identity construction and a constraint on female agency, focusing on Criseyde in TC and Dido in HF, and briefly mentioning LGW. As an historical force, shame also determines narrative possibilities in these poems.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
House of Fame
Legend of Good Women