Orpheus, Eurydice, and the 'Double Sorwe' of Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Astell, Ann W.
Orpheus, Eurydice, and the 'Double Sorwe' of Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 23 (1989): 283-99.
- Description
- The tale of Orpheus is a tragic love story used to convey the central moral lesson of Boethius's "Consolation," a lesson corresponding to the "moralitee" spelled out in the epilogue to Chaucer's TC. Both the Orpheus metrum and Chaucer's poem have a two-part structure based on the lover's winning and then losing his beloved.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.