'Feynede Loves,' Feigned Love, and Faith in Trouthe
- Author / Editor
- Newman, Barbara.
'Feynede Loves,' Feigned Love, and Faith in Trouthe
- Published
- Stephen A. Barney, ed. Chaucer's Troilus: Essays in Criticism (Hamden, Conn.: Shoestring Press, 1980), pp. 257-75.
- Description
- The dichotomy between "trouthe" (fidelity) and truth (actuality) marks TC from the outset. "Trouthe" in love is linked to "routhe" and "kyndenesse," and on every level is compromised by the characters' feigning.
- Moreover, the proverbs which are so much a part of the poem, are equivocal inasmuch as they are both prophetic and ironic. The narrator, finally disillusioned with the feigned love and lore, arrives at his own version of "trouthe."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Troilus: Essays in Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.