The Narrator of 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Waswo, Richard.

Title
The Narrator of 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
ELH 50 (1983): 1-25.

Description
The narrator of TC, never overtly separated from the author, implicates and disorients the reader by inconsistencies, variations in person and syntax, seeming self-identification now with Troilus's naivete and now with Pandarus's deviousness, professions of loyalty to his source, the inconclusive elevation of Troilus to the spheres, and the anticlimactic palinode.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.