"Language in her eye": The Expressive Face of Criseyde/Cressida."

Author / Editor
Trigg, Stephanie.

Title
"Language in her eye": The Expressive Face of Criseyde/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. 94-108.

Description
Analyzes Criseyde's "speaking face" in TC, along with similar depictions of suggestive facial beauty in BD, PhyT, and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida." Attends most closely to Criseyde's "ascaunce" look in TC 1.288-94.

Alternative Title
Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Book of the Duchess
Physician and His Tale