The 'Troilus' Frontispiece and the Dramatization of Chaucer's 'Troilus'

Author / Editor
Kendrick, Laura.

Title
The 'Troilus' Frontispiece and the Dramatization of Chaucer's 'Troilus'

Published
Chaucer Review 22 (1987): 81-92.

Description
Lydgate's "Troy Book" describes the classical theater as a semicircle with a raised pulpit in the midst. This is what is portrayed in the Corpus Christi College (Cambridge) manuscript: finely dressed figures mime the roles of the principals while the speaker in the pulpit performs the text vocally.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.