Lost Hearts : 'Troilus and Criseyde', Book II, Lines 925-31

Author / Editor
Fletcher, Alan J.

Title
Lost Hearts : 'Troilus and Criseyde', Book II, Lines 925-31

Published
Notes and Queries 235 (1990): 163-64.

Description
Suggests that Chaucer conflated lovers' exchange of hearts with the "topos" of the "avis predalis" tearing out the heart of its victim.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.