What's Hecuba to Him? Absence, Silence and Lament in "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Troilus and Cressida."

Author / Editor
Lees-Jeffries, Hester.

Title
What's Hecuba to Him? Absence, Silence and Lament in "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Troilus and Cressida."

Published
Andrew James Johnston, Russell West-Pavlov, and Elisabeth Kempf, eds. Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Troilus and Cressida" (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 61-75.

Description
Assesses Hecuba as a "potent absent presence" in Shakespeare's :"Troilus and Cressida," and comments on the possible influence of LGW and TC on Shakespeare's "Rape of Lucrece" as well as his Trojan play. Includes attention to Dido and Penelope.

Alternative Title
Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women