Sweet Persuasion: The Subject of Fortune in Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Scanlon, Larry.
Sweet Persuasion: The Subject of Fortune in 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. 211-23.
- Description
- Explains Fortune as a figure that embodies historical flux and affirms aristocratic privilege. In TC, references to Fortune do not provide a philosophical norm against which to test the attitudes of the characters; the references assert politically the "inevitability of patriarchal power."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: "Subgit to alle Poesye": Essays in Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.