Le Testament of Cresseid (Le Testament de Cressida) est un poème narratif de 616 lignes, en écossais du Moyen Âge (Middle Scots), œuvre du poète écossais du XVe siècle, le makarRobert Henryson.
C'est le meilleur poème connu qu'il ait produit[1].
The Poems of Robert Henryson. Éd. Robert L. Kindrick. Kalamazoo (Michigan), Medieval Institute Publications, 1997. Accès électronique.
Voir aussi
Gray, Douglas. Robert Henryson. English Writers of the Late Middle Ages, no. 9. Brookfield, Vermont: Variorum, 1996.
Kindrick, Robert L. "Monarchs and Monarchy in the Poetry of Henryson and Dunbar." Dans Actes du 2e Colloque de Langue et de Littérature Écossaises. Eds. Jean-Jacques Blanchot et Claude Graf. Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg, 1979. pp. 307–25.
McDiarmid, Matthew P. "Robert Henryson in his Poems." In Bards and Makars. Eds. Adam J. Aitken, Matthew P. McDiarmid, and Derick S. Thompson. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 1977. pp. 27–40.
Patterson, Lee W. "Christian and Pagan in The Testament of Cresseid". Philological Quarterly 52 (1973), 696-714.
Ridley, Florence. "A Plea for Middle Scots." In The Learned and the Lewed. Ed. Larry D. Benson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974. pp. 175–96.
Rowland, Beryl. "The 'seiknes incurabill' in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid", English Language Notes 1 (1964), 175-77.
Spearing, A. C. "The Testament of Cresseid and the High Concise Style". Dans Criticism and Medieval Poetry. London: E. Arnold, 1964. pp. 118–44.
Stephenson, William. "The Acrostic “Fictio” in Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid (Lines 58–63)," Chaucer Review, 92.2 (1994), 163–75.
Utz, Richard. "Writing Alternative Worlds: Rituals of Authorship and Authority in Late Medieval Theological and Literary Discourse." Dans Creations: Medieval Rituals, the Arts, and the Concept of Creation. Eds. Nils Holger Petersen, et al. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. pp. 121–38.
Whiting, B. J. "A Probable Allusion to Henryson's 'Testament of Cresseid.' ", Modern Language Review 40 (1945), 46-47.