Melancholy and Dreams in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- D'Agata D'Ottavi, Stefania.
Melancholy and Dreams in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Giovanni Iamartino, Maria Luisa Maggioni, and Roberta Facchinetti, eds. Thou sittest at another boke: English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini (Milan: Polimetrica, 2008), pp. 209-21.
- Description
- In TC, Troilus's melancholic character and his intense intellectual activity--a topos reminiscent of the first of Pseudo-Aristotle's thirty "problemata" in "Problemata Physica," according to which all men of genius are melancholy--are especially evident in the hero's dreams. The dreams present themselves vividly to the melancholy sleeper's mind, and his interpretation of them is more problematic and subtle than that of Pandarus.
- Contributor
- Iamartino, Giovanni, ed.
- Maggioni, Maria Luisa, ed.
- Facchinetti, Roberta, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Thou sittest at another boke: English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde