'Inferno' 5 and 'Troilus and Criseyde' Revisited
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Karla.
'Inferno' 5 and 'Troilus and Criseyde' Revisited
- Published
- R. A. Shoaf, ed. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: "Subgit to alle Poesye": Essays in Criticsm. MRTS, no. 104. Binghamton, N. Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992), pp. 239-56.
- Description
- Compares how Dante's Paolo and Francesca fall in love with the process of Criseyde's falling in love. Each poet self-consciously depicts love, but whereas Dante maintains a conventional view of his feminine character, Chaucer discloses the limitations of traditional representations of female passivity.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, "Subgit to alle Poesye": Essays in Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.