Troilus' Farewell to Criseyde: The Idealist as Clairvoyant and Rhetorician
- Author / Editor
- Rutherford, Charles S.
Troilus' Farewell to Criseyde: The Idealist as Clairvoyant and Rhetorician
- Published
- Papers on Language and Literature 17 (1981): 245-54.
- Description
- Troilus's final speech in Book IV includes three of the only four proverbs he uses, suggesting a new-found "auctoritee." Troilus casts off idealism, speaking for the first time as a cynic and unhappy prophet. The Troilus who allows Criseyde to depart is the more self-aware Troilus who will eventually become the tragic, heroic figure of Book V.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.