The Descent from Bliss: 'Troilus,' III, 1310-1582
- Author / Editor
- Wetherbee, Winthrop.
The Descent from Bliss: 'Troilus,' III, 1310-1582
- Published
- Stephen A. Barney, ed. Chaucer's Troilus: Essays in Criticism (Hamden, Conn.: Shoestring Press, 1980), pp. 297-317.
- Description
- Chaucer is concerned with showing the consequences of the consummation of the love of Troilus and Criseyde as it concerns both characters and narrator. The events following this consummation scene also broadly parallel those in Dante's "Purgatorio" from Canto 19 to the end.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Troilus: Essays in Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.