A Comparative Study of 'Troilus and Criseyde' and 'Romeo and Juliet'

Author / Editor
Shaw, Priscilla D.

Title
A Comparative Study of 'Troilus and Criseyde' and 'Romeo and Juliet'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1982): 3169A.

Description
Besides Brooke's "Tragicall Historye," TC seems a significant source for Shakespeare's play. Although verbal parallels are scanty, speeches comparable in rhetoric, imagery, and theme appear in greater density than could be mere conventions of courtly romance.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion..