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Tale of Melibee , 253 n

Tarquinius, 6 , 8

Taylor, David, 186

Tereus, 5 , 6 ;

rape of Philomela, 158 -59

Teseida , 218

Theban widows, 217 , 218 -20, 237

Thebes, siege of, 164

Theseus, 6 , 8 , 268 ;

dominance over women, 219 ;

female entourage of, 217 ;

friendship with Arcite, 212 ;

imprisonment of Palamon and Arcite, 213 ;

marriage to Hippolyta, 218 , 219 , 240 ;

subjugation of Amazons, 216 , 217 n;

victory over Creon, 209

Thisbe, 1 , 4 , 6 , 8 , 198

Thopas, Sir, 17

Tideus, 161 , 164

Tiercelets: in the Parliament of Fowls , 119 , 122 ;

in the Squire's Tale , 268

Tiercels, in the Parliament of Fowls , 120 , 121 , 131

Troilus, 17 , 215 ;

capitulation to love, 143 -44;

as courtly lover, 181 ;

debilitation by love, 149 ;

dominance over Criseyde, 151 ;

dream of the boar, 151 -52, 161 ;

feminization of, 151 , 153 n, 154 , 176 , 182 , 186 ;

glimpse of Criseyde by, 145 -47;

heroism of, 175 , 180 n;

indifference of, 109 ;

integrity of, 166 ;

as reader, 171 -72;

relationship to Pandarus, 154 , 166 -67;

transcendence of Criseyde, 182 , 272 ;

as warrior, 152

Troilus and Criseyde , 11 , 141 -187;

bedroom scene of, 149 -51;

literary criticism of, 46 ;

male characters in, 175 ;

male readers of, 47 , 51 , 162 -163;

misogyny in, 10 n, 174 , 177 ;

mythic background of, 157 ;

realism in, 141 ;

rhetorical strategies in, 148

Troy, feminized nature of, 152 -53, 155