The Narrator's Frame for 'Troilus'

Author / Editor
Dahlberg, Charles.

Title
The Narrator's Frame for 'Troilus'

Published
Chaucer Review 15 (1980): 85-100.

Description
Opening and closing stanzas of TC combine high, epic style with "sermo humilis," creating a rising and sinking pattern of "unlikeness." The verse and rhetoric reflect the meanings, the sublimest points made in simplest statement. The conclusion thus parallels the opening pattern.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.