Hector the Second: The Lost Face of Troilus-tratus
- Author / Editor
- Kiernan, Kevin S.
Hector the Second: The Lost Face of Troilus-tratus
- Published
- Annuale Mediaevale 16 (1975): 52-62.
- Description
- Chaucer has greatly expanded the role of Hector from his comparatively minor status in Boccaccio. As an honorable man of action and reason, Hector is a thematic contrast to Troilus, who is often prostrated by egocentric passions and loses Criseyde largely through his own ineffectiveness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.