"Double Sorrow": The Complexity of Complaint in Chaucer's "Anelida and Arcite" and Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid."
- Author / Editor
- Tasioulas, Jacqueline.
"Double Sorrow": The Complexity of Complaint in Chaucer's "Anelida and Arcite" and Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid."
- Published
- Critical Survey 30.2 (2018): 6-19.
- Description
- Argues that not just TC but also Anel has an important function in Henryson's "Testament." Echoes of this poem affect judgment of Cresseid and Troilus, and the question of what constitutes "truth," for lover, narrator, or reader. The notion of "doubleness" in Chaucer's treatment of the loves of Anelida and Arcite mirrors the amatory and textual doubleness basic to the "Testament."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Anelida and Arcite
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations