A Note on 'Troilus and Criseyde' V.1786-92

Author / Editor
Haas, Renate.

Title
A Note on 'Troilus and Criseyde' V.1786-92

Published
Florilegium 10 (1991, for 1988): 93-98.

Description
Richly rhetorical and allusive, Chaucer's "Go, litel bok" stanza, in its undercutting of the opposition between "makyng" and "poesye," reflects his ambivalence toward the new classicizing poetics of trecento Italy.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.