Declarations of 'Entente' in Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Archibald, Elizabeth.
Declarations of 'Entente' in Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Chaucer Review 25 (1991): 190-213.
- Description
- TC is a drama of "entente," concerned more with why people do things than what they do. Chaucer uses "entente" here much more heavily than in any of his earlier works and evokes its numerous meanings. As the poem progresses, there is a "slippage of meaning," focusing the reader on the "unreliability of stated intentions and the difficulty of interpreting them."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.