A Note on the Sources of Chaucer's 'Troilus' V, 540-613
- Author / Editor
- Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
A Note on the Sources of Chaucer's 'Troilus' V, 540-613
- Published
- Chaucer Review 24 (1990): 306-308.
- Description
- Not only does Troilus's address to the "paleys desolat" of Criseyde echo the lament over the deserted Jerusalem in the first two chapters of Lamentations, but also Troilus's fixation upon that house is designed to evoke the self-punishing behavior Ovid warns against in "Remedia amoris."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.