Color Symbolism in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Beckman, Sabina.

Title
Color Symbolism in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
College Language Association Journal 20 (1976): 68-74.

Description
In TC, though color words are sparsely used, green, red, blue, white, black are tellingly employed, frequently serving symbolically to connote psychological states of being, sexuality, and emotions, particularly in relation to "eros" and "agape."

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.