Dramatic Chronology in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Bie, Wendy A.

Title
Dramatic Chronology in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
English Language Notes 14 (1976): 9-13.

Description
Readers err in trying to define the time-scheme of TC too closely, since only a few days of the story's three years are narrated in detail. One must distinguish, therefore, between historical and dramatic chronology, noting Chaucer's emphasis more on the intensity of experience than on its duration.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.