'Troilus and Criseyde': The Politics of Love
- Author / Editor
- Diamond, Arlyn.
'Troilus and Criseyde': The Politics of Love
- Published
- Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 93-102.
- Description
- To be part of the courtly love tradition, TC must exist outside the patriarchal feudal order and allow male and female equal power. However, the reality of a hierarchical social order creates ambivalence in the narrator toward his material.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer in the Eighties.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.