Gender Transgression and Political Subversiveness in Geoffrey Chaucer’s "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Lopez, Alan.

Title
Gender Transgression and Political Subversiveness in Geoffrey Chaucer’s "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
New Views on Gender 5 (2000): 69-79. Freely accessible at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/iusbgender/article/view/35631/38680; last accessed May 22, 2025.

Description
Observes tensions between masculine, political responsibilities Troilus has to his state and feminized submissiveness to his "sovereyn" Criseyde, grounding these tensions in medieval critiques of courtly love and aligning Troilus's submission with legal "contempt."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde