The "Troilus and Criseyde" Frontispiece Again.
- Author / Editor
- Williams, George.
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