"I wolde excuse hire yit for routhe": Chaucers Einstellung zu Criseyde.

Author / Editor
Käsmann, Hans.

Title
"I wolde excuse hire yit for routhe": Chaucers Einstellung zu Criseyde.

Published
Arno Esch, ed. Chaucer und Seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1968), pp. 97-122.

Description
Assesses Chaucer's characterization of Criseyde in light of Boccaccio's Criseide in "Filostrato," arguing that Chaucer makes her more of a courtly ideal and therefore more reprehensible in her infidelity and a figure of all false, worldly love.

Alternative Title
Chaucer und Seine Zeit

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