The "Troilus and Criseyde" Frontispiece Again.

Author / Editor
Williams, George.

Title
The "Troilus and Criseyde" Frontispiece Again.

Published
Modern Language Review 57 (1962): 173-78.

Description
Argues that several prominent figures in the "Troilus" frontispiece (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61) represent John of Gaunt; his second wife, Constance of Castile and Laon; his mistress, Katherine Swynford; his first wife, Blanche of Castile; and perhaps her father, Henry of Lancaster. Comments on previous scholarship, as well as historical details and the dating of the poem.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Manuscripts and Textual Studies