'Troilus and Criseyde' : The Illusion of Allusion
- Author / Editor
- Spearing, A. C.
'Troilus and Criseyde' : The Illusion of Allusion
- Published
- Exemplaria 2 (1990): 263-77.
- Description
- Despite pressures of late-twentieth-century scholarship to make Chaucer's poetry as difficult and allusive as possible,scholars need to distinguish between Chaucer's use of sources that would have been obscure or unobtainable for his fourteenth-century audience and intentional allusions to sources that depend on audience recognition for apprehension of his full meaning.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.