'As false as Cressid': Virtue Trouble from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Author / Editor
Crocker, Holly A.

Title
'As false as Cressid': Virtue Trouble from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Published
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43 (2013): 303-34.

Description
Looks at Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" in the context of its medieval legacy, including works by Chaucer, Lydgate, and Henryson, to argue that Shakespeare "continues an important late medieval poetic tradition, which highlights the problematic consequences of virtue's performativity for idealized women in premodern England."

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