Situational Poetics in Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid
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Table of Contents

List of Figures

ix

Preface

xi

Introduction: Transcultural Intertextuality and the “Vther Quair”

1

Chapter 1: “Lyke to ane poeit of the auld fassoun”: The Scottish Virgil

55

From Text to Work

56

Career Virgilianism in Late Medieval Britain

61

Henryson’s Trifold Poetic Career

68

Articulations

88

The Death of Henryson

98

Chapter 2: “Fals Cresseid and trewe knicht Troylus”: Genre and Poetics in Henryson’s Tragedy

107

With Unwar Strook

109

The Clamor of Tragedies

130

Comune Strumpettis of the Theatre

133

Moral Tragedy and The Maculate Muse

142

Ending(s)

151

Chapter 3: “Weddir richt feruent”: Scapegoating and Sacrifice

155

The Case against Cresseid

158

Cresseid and Sacrifice

171

Scandalizing Cresseid

186

Gods and Monsters

192