The Freedom of the Lovers in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Morgan, Gerald.
The Freedom of the Lovers in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- John Scattergood, ed. Literature and Learning in Medieval and Renaissance England: Essays Presented to Fitzroy Pyle (Blackrock, Country Dublin, Ireland: Irish Academic Press, 1984), pp. 59-102.
- Description
- Defines the freedom of the lovers in TC as a freedom involving the will--the sensitive soul being passive or dark and the rational soul being active or light. The misery of Troilus and Criseyde is not unjust but results form their wrong choices.
- Alternative Title
- Literature and Learning in Medieval and Renaissance England: Essays Presented to Fitzroy Pyle.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.