Come in Out of the Code: Interpreting the Discourse of Desire in Boccaccio's Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Hanning, Robert W.

Title
Come in Out of the Code: Interpreting the Discourse of Desire in Boccaccio's Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Published
R. A. Shoaf, ed. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: "Subgit to alle Poesye": Essays in Criticism. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, no. 104. Pegasus Paperbacks, no. 10 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992), pp. 120-37.

Description
In Filostrato, Troilo's accurate decoding of Criseyde's language enables him to discover her reciprocal desire, leading to fulfillment. In TC, fulfillment is more complex as Troilus, Pandarus, and the narrator each construct their own meaning of Criseyde's desire, seeking to impose it on her and the progress of the love affair.

Alternative Title
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, "Subgit to alle Poesye": Essays in Criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.