Ascalaphus and Philomela: Myth and Meaning in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Sturges, Robert S.

Title
Ascalaphus and Philomela: Myth and Meaning in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Published
ANQ: A Quarterly Journal l of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 4 (1991): 63-67.

Description
Two allusions to birds of mythology suggest the "conflicts of signification" in TC; their ambiguity makes the reader "an active participant in the poem."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.