Criseyde's Character in the Major Writers from Benoît through Dryden: The Changes and Their Significance

Author / Editor
Boatner, Janet Williams.

Title
Criseyde's Character in the Major Writers from Benoît through Dryden: The Changes and Their Significance

Published
DAI 31.08 (1971): 4705A.

Description
Includes chapters on Benoît, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Henryson, Shakespeare, and Dryden, treating Chaucer's Criseyde as "the most delightful of them all"--a character of "infinite complexity and infinite charm."

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde