The Descent from Bliss: 'Troilus,' III, 1310-1582

Author / Editor
Wetherbee, Winthrop.

Title
The Descent from Bliss: 'Troilus,' III, 1310-1582

Published
Stephen A. Barney, ed. Chaucer's Troilus: Essays in Criticism (Hamden, Conn.: Shoestring Press, 1980), pp. 297-317.

Description
Chaucer is concerned with showing the consequences of the consummation of the love of Troilus and Criseyde as it concerns both characters and narrator. The events following this consummation scene also broadly parallel those in Dante's "Purgatorio" from Canto 19 to the end.

Alternative Title
Chaucer's Troilus: Essays in Criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.