Classical and Medieval Elements in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Windeatt, Barry.
Classical and Medieval Elements in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Published
- Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 111-31.
- Description
- Drawing on classical and medieval sources, Chaucer's TC incorporates multiple genres, each representing its own view of experience. The resulting masterpiece is neither an epic, a tragedy, a romance, a chronicle, a lyric, nor an allegory but a rich and complex whole that transcends any one genre.
- Alternative Title
- The European Tragedy of Troilus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.