Medieval Tragedy and the Genre of 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Clough, Andrea.
Medieval Tragedy and the Genre of 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Medievalia et Humanistica 11 (1982): 211-27.
- Description
- Fourteenth-century practice recognized at least three categories of tragic narrative: "de casibus" tragedy, the Ovidian tale of the deserted heroine, and the tale of ill-fated lovers. In TC, Chaucer combined the first and last of these in a new type, "romance tragedy," which integrated the rise-and-fall structure of objective events with the subjective movements from joy to sorrow, thereby giving the tragic fall a new psychological significance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.