Lovesickness in 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Wack, Mary F.
Lovesickness in 'Troilus'
- Published
- Pacific Coast Philology 19 (1984): 55-61.
- Description
- The medieval medical view of love as materialistic, deterministic, and ethically neutral shapes the thematic development of TC. In the first three books, Troilus, Pandarus, and Criseyde are patient, physician, and cure. In bks. 4 and 5, Troilus's lovesickness transcends a material view of love and no longer "determines" his love. Through "amor hereos," Chaucer explores the consequences of man's dual nature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.