'Troilus and Criseyde': The Politics of Love

Author / Editor
Diamond, Arlyn.

Title
'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.