The Reputation of Criseyde, 1155-1500
- Author / Editor
- Mieszkowski, Gretchen.
The Reputation of Criseyde, 1155-1500
- Published
- Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 43 (1971): 71-153. [Reprinted separately: Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1971.]
- Description
- Details the early, negative reputation of Criseyde in Chaucer's sources for TC, and discusses how Chaucer capitalizes upon this reputation in tension with the narrator's positive view of her in his poem in order to engage his audience. Also discusses how later medieval depictions of Criseyde react to Chaucer's characterization and narrative technique.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion