Theban History in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Anderson, David.
Theban History in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 4 (1982): 109-33.
- Description
- Chaucer's uses of the events of the "Thebaid" depend for their significance upon an historical perspective that placed the seige and destruction of Thebes" before that of Troy; thus, Chaucer uses Theban material in "satirical counterpoint" to the action of TC, especially the action of Pandarus and Troilus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.