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The Testament of Cresseid and Other Poems

by Robert Henryson

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Read The Testament of Cresseid in Scots, with a decent gloss, in the version included in the Norton Critical edition of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. It's a sort of epilogue to Chaucer's poem, describing the horrible fate of Criseyde (Cresseid, here), as she becomes afflicted with leprosy. It's about as cheerful, and sympathetic to Cresseid's plight, as you'd expect from a medieval text about an unfaithful woman, despite the pressures I think are pretty clearly on her throughout Chaucer's tale.

Glad I read it, but I couldn't say I enjoyed it. ( )
  shanaqui | Apr 9, 2013 |
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