Chaucer and the Muse of History: A Presumption of Objectivity in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Sommer, George J.

Title
Chaucer and the Muse of History: A Presumption of Objectivity in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Cithara 23 (1983): 38-47.

Description
Discusses poet-narrator ambiguity in four TC prologues and the Epilogue and in the narrator's guise as historian. The narrator is detached and didactic but also compassionate and helpless.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.