Criseyde's Dream of the Eagle: Love and War in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Gallagher, Joseph E.
Criseyde's Dream of the Eagle: Love and War in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 36 (1975): 115-32.
- Description
- Foreshadowing submission to Troilus and Diomede, Criseyde's erotic dream of the eagle symbolizes her fear of man's aggressive nature and her belief in love's ennobling influence. Throughout the poem love modifies the worst in Troilus, the warrior, inspiring moral virtues. Tragically love cannot resist war's greater aggression.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.