'The Destruction of Troy', Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde', and Lydgate's 'Troy Book'

Author / Editor
Sundwall, McKay.

Title
'The Destruction of Troy', Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde', and Lydgate's 'Troy Book'

Published
Review of English Studies 26 (1975): 313-17.

Description
Inclusion of Diomede's taking Criseyde's rein, original with Chaucer, dates "The Destruction of Troy" after 1385-87. A probable compression of Lydgate's reference to TC suggests a date after 1420 and closer to Luttrell's dating of the alliterative poem.

Alternative Title
Review of English Studies 26 (1975).

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