Comedy and Tragedy in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Brewer, Derek.

Title
Comedy and Tragedy in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 95-109.

Description
Encased in a larger, comic vision of "potential human freedom and happiness," Troilus's tragic misfortunes acquire new meaning in Chaucer's TC, which is neither comedy nor tragedy but a "curious mixture" of the two.

Alternative Title
The European Tragedy of Troilus.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.