Narrative Devices in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Frost, Michael H.

Title
Narrative Devices in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Thoth 14.2-3 (1974): 29-38.

Description
The narrator of TC has two functions: structurally, he acts as a narrative device which, via book and scene division, lends dramatic immmediacy to Chaucer's romantic drama; he also is a "dramatis persona" characterized by his very use of narrative devices.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.