Ambages and Double Visages: Betrayal in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Baynes-Ross, Felisa.

Title
Ambages and Double Visages: Betrayal in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Kristina Mendicino, ed. Playing False: Representations of Betrayal (New York: Peter Lang, 2013), pp. 313-36.

Description
Examines the "conditions that allow for [Criseyde's] betrayal" in TC, including the "structure of courtship" which establishes the duplicity of the relationship between the lovers, the deceptions upon which it is based, and the fundamental ambiguities of human discourse, rife with lies, delusions, performances, and misplaced faith.

Contributor
Mendicino, Kristina, ed.

Alternative Title
Playing False: Representations of Betrayal.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde