A Scriptural Echo in the Trojan Parliament of 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Ann M.
A Scriptural Echo in the Trojan Parliament of 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Nottingham Medieval Studies 24 (1980): 51-56.
- Description
- Chaucer's presentation of a Trojan parliament unanimously resolving, despite the reasonable objections of Hector, to exchange an innocent Criseyde for a wicked Antenor (TC IV, 141-217), makes allusions to the trial of Christ before Pilate; Chaucer's sources do not. In TC the biblical echoes serve to characterize the depth of Troilus' sorrow, and may also indirectly criticize Troilus' immoderate love for Criseyde.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.