'Bitwixen Game and Ernest': 'Troilus and Criseyde' as a Post-Boccaccian Response to the 'Commedia'
- Author / Editor
- Reale, Nancy M.
'Bitwixen Game and Ernest': 'Troilus and Criseyde' as a Post-Boccaccian Response to the 'Commedia'
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 71 (1992): 155-71.
- Description
- Compares the consummation scenes in Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and Chaucer's TC, focusing on Pandarus's role, and demonstrates how Boccaccio served as Chaucer's intermediary in a critical dialogue with Dantean assertions about language, love, and truth. The narrative voice in TC reveals an ambivalence about the uses of poetry: Pandarus's capacity to assert meaning and to create romance is questioned by the Christian perspective of the palinode.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.