The Moon in Leo in Book V of 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Stokes, M.

Title
The Moon in Leo in Book V of 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Chaucer Review 17 (1982): 116-29.

Description
In this last book Chaucer uses a number of devices inexorably to distance the reader from the personages in the poem. He suggests astral influence that brings about the inevitable movement of joy-to-sorrow in love.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.