Keeping Trouthe: Fidelity and Speech in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Way, Karen Grose.
Keeping Trouthe: Fidelity and Speech in Chaucer
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1987) 4082A.
- Description
- Way studies Chaucer's "trouthe" as meaning both troth and truth, with consequent conflicts arising in his poetry. In TC, "trouthe" is kept by silence even when the "trouthe" is broken. Absolute troth keepers (Griselda, Virginia) suffer. Truth telling about false Criseyde jeopardizes the narrator in LGWP. ManT, ParsT, and Ret move from truth telling as mistaken to virtuous.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Canterbury Tales--General.