Irony and Sympathy in 'Troilus and Criseyde': A Reconsideration
- Author / Editor
- Lawton, David.
Irony and Sympathy in 'Troilus and Criseyde': A Reconsideration
- Published
- Leeds Studies in English 14 (1983): 94-115.
- Description
- Shifts of tone and tension between ironies of fatal necessity and fateful will create balance between appreciation of the lovers' nobility and pessimism about their frailty. The oxymoron functions thematically and modally: religious passion combined with ludic casuistry, sympathy with irony.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.