'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
McCall, John P.

Title
'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 446-63.

Description
Comprehensive readings of TC fall into two basic categories: sympathetic/dualistic, and ironic. In the first, the essentially admirable courtly love of Troilus and Criseyde is seen to contrast (in varying degrees) with the orthodox Christian world at the end of the poem. In the ironic view,Troilus is a self-pitying sinner who anchors himself only to the fickleness of this world.
Reprinted from the first (1968) edition), with updated bibliography.

Alternative Title
Companion to Chaucer Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.