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ANTIGONE is Criseyde's niece who sings a song of love as she walks in the garden with Criseyde, Tharbe, and Flexippe, Tr II.813-875. This scene is Chaucer's invention; it does not appear in Boccaccio's Il Filocolo or Il Filostrato. Certain ideas and phrases in the song resemble Troilo's song in Il Filostrato III.73-89. Antigone and Tharbe accompany Criseyde to dinner at Deiphebus's house, Tr II.1562-1563, 1716. Antigone and nine or ten others accompany Criseyde to supper at Pandarus's house, Tr III.596-598. [Creseyde: Flexippe: Tharbe]

Antigone appears twice initially, Tr II.879, 1563; twice in medial positions, Tr II.824, 887; and three times in final rhyming position, Tr II.816, 1716; Tr III.597.

M.C. Borthwick, "Antigone's Song as 'Mirour' in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." MLQ 22 (1961): 227-235; K. Young, The Origin and Development of the Story of Troilus and Criseyde, 173-175.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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