Shakespeare's Use of Chaucer in 'Troilus and Cressida': 'That the will is infinite, and the execution confirmed'
- Author / Editor
- Davis-Brown, Kris.
Shakespeare's Use of Chaucer in 'Troilus and Cressida': 'That the will is infinite, and the execution confirmed'
- Published
- South Central Review 5.2 (1988): 15-34.
- Description
- Shakespeare's play, though derived from Chaucer, differs from its source in many ways. Shakespeare's Pandarus is a less tender, more hardened figure; his Cressida is psychologically and socially more vulnerable; his Troilus is more openly sexual. The greatest divergences between the two are Cressida's lament for Troilus when they part (Shakespeare thus inverts Chaucer) and the survival of Troilus at the end of the play.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Troilus and Criseyde.