Characterization in 'Troilus and Criseyde': Some Relationships Centered on Hope

Author / Editor
Milowicki, Edward J.

Title
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.