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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Durham Ordinances of 1385

Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Durham Ordinances of 1385 14 English Language Notes CHAUCER’S TROILUS AND CRISEYDE AND THE DURHAM ORDINANCES OF 1385 N ot too long ago critics of C h au cer’s Troilus and Criseyde were convinced — one is tem p ted to say, “alm ost to a m a n ” — that the prim ary purpose o f th e poem was to focus its re a d ers’ sym­ pathy on the tragic story o f a m an, th e p o e m ’s hero, Troilus, who was betrayed by a woman, the p o e m ’s faithless h eroine, Criseyde.1 But as m ore recen t critics such as David Aers, Caroline Dinshaw, an d others have dem onstrated, C haucer has in fact com plicated the action an d emotive texture o f th e poem in ways th a t enable us to see what critics writing in th e days before femi­ nism an d g e n d er studies failed to see, namely, th a t Criseyde is no less and is perhaps even m ore o f a tragic victim th a n Troilus.2 In the p resen t b rie f http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png English Language Notes Duke University Press

Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Durham Ordinances of 1385

Besserman, Lawrence
English Language Notes , Volume 40 (1) – Sep 1, 2002
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Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado
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14 English Language Notes CHAUCER’S TROILUS AND CRISEYDE AND THE DURHAM ORDINANCES OF 1385 N ot too long ago critics of C h au cer’s Troilus and Criseyde were convinced — one is tem p ted to say, “alm ost to a m a n ” — that the prim ary purpose o f th e poem was to focus its re a d ers’ sym­ pathy on the tragic story o f a m an, th e p o e m ’s hero, Troilus, who was betrayed by a woman, the p o e m ’s faithless h eroine, Criseyde.1 But as m ore recen t critics such as David Aers, Caroline Dinshaw, an d others have dem onstrated, C haucer has in fact com plicated the action an d emotive texture o f th e poem in ways th a t enable us to see what critics writing in th e days before femi­ nism an d g e n d er studies failed to see, namely, th a t Criseyde is no less and is perhaps even m ore o f a tragic victim th a n Troilus.2 In the p resen t b rie f

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Published: Sep 1, 2002

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