Lyric Interventions in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, Elizabeth.
Lyric Interventions in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Julia Boffey and Christiania Whitehead, eds. Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems (Cambridge: Brewer, 2018), pp. 174-88.
- Description
- Argues that three lyric moments in Book II of TC (Antigone's song, the lay of the nightingale, and the dream of the eagle) "distil the complexity of Criseyde's
inner deliberations," show “how Criseyde's choice to love is inflected by the condition of women subject to male desire within an economy of war," and "express the social antagonism between love and war that is the subject of the poem as a whole."
- Alternative Title
- Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Lyrics and Short Poems