A Separate Peace: Chaucer and the Troilus of Tradition

Author / Editor
Brown, William H.,Jr.

Title
A Separate Peace: Chaucer and the Troilus of Tradition

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 83 (1984): 492-508.

Description
In TC, Chaucer used the tradition of Joseph of Exeter and Benoit (who had drawn on Dares) to emphasize Troilus's public career rather than his private affairs.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.