Cresseid, Dido, and the Power of Speech.
- Author / Editor
- Royan, Nicola.
Cresseid, Dido, and the Power of Speech.
- Published
- Nottingham Medieval Studies 64 (2020): 61-86.
- Description
- Compares the representation of Cresseid and Dido in Robert Henryson's "The Testament of Cresseid" and in Gavin Douglas's "Eneados," along with other female figures, mortal and immortal, and reflects on the differences between these Scottish poems and their Chaucerian models in TC, HF, and LGW.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
House of Fame
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women