'Troilus and Criseyde': The Aubades
- Author / Editor
- Kossick, S. G.
'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