'Troilus and Criseyde': The Aubades

Author / Editor
Kossick, S. G.

Title
'Troilus and Criseyde': The Aubades

Published
Unisa English Studies 9.1 (1971): 11-13.

Description
Describes the two aubades of TC (3.1422-70) as characteristic of the genders of their speakers: The "manliness" of Troilus's aubade "counterpoise[es] the femininity" of Criseyde's. Contrasts the two aubades with W. B. Yeats's "The Parting."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations