Tied in "lusty leese": Gender and Determinism in "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Slayton, Kendra.

Title
Tied in "lusty leese": Gender and Determinism in "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Chaucer Review 54.1 (2019): 67-90.

Description
Situates Criseyde and her agency in discussions of freewill and the effect of secular society on Boethian notions of the highest good, and argues that Chaucer's depiction of Criseyde throughout the poem undercuts her apparent agency. The poem's undermining of Criseyde's agency emphasizes the lack of female free will and highlights the inescapability of male violence in this secular order.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations