True Troilus and False Cresseid: The Descent from Tragedy
- Author / Editor
- Benson, C. David.
True Troilus and False Cresseid: The Descent from Tragedy
- Published
- Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 153-70.
- Description
- After Chaucer's TC, minor writers of the fifteenth, sixteenth,and early seventeenth centuries generally ignore "both the high passion and the tragedy of the lovers." The two type characters appear chiefly in brief allusions, "with none of Chaucer's complexity and delicacy of characterization."
- Alternative Title
- The European Tragedy of Troilus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.