Telling the Story in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Lambert, Mark.

Title
Telling the Story in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 59-73.

Description
The "texture" of TC--its nuances and suggestive detail--both enriches and "interferes with" the meaning conveyed by theme and structure. Thus, by the end of TC readers may both admire and dislike the "trouthe" of the hero and heroine. Overtly, TC "celebrates fidelity"; "covertly, it makes us feel...the claustrophobia which comes with fidelity rigidified, gone wrong."

Alternative Title
The Cambridge Chaucer Companion.