Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde': The Passionate Epic and Its Narrator
- Author / Editor
- Bestul, Thomas H.
Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde': The Passionate Epic and Its Narrator
- Published
- Chaucer Review 14 (1980): 366-78.
- Description
- Like other late medieval art, TC exhibits a growing concern with the portrayal of emotions, especially through the shifting role of the narrator. He sometimes resorts to "occupatio," claiming inability to describe an emotional state, and eventually in Book V he, along with Troilus, recognizes that the passions in the poem are ephemeral, but nevertheless real.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.