Characterization in 'Troilus and Criseyde': Some Relationships Centered on Hope
- Author / Editor
- Milowicki, Edward J.
Characterization in 'Troilus and Criseyde': Some Relationships Centered on Hope
- Published
- Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 11:1 (1984): 12-24.
- Description
- Through the virtue of hope and a sense of penance, Troilus's courtly love and death in TC parallel divine love and salvation, showing the influences of Dante's "Commedia" and Boethius's "De consolatio philosophiae."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.