Troilus and the Game of Love

Author / Editor
Green, Richard Firth.

Title
Troilus and the Game of Love

Published
Chaucer Review 13 (1979): 201-20.

Description
Throughout TC Chaucer uses the social play of "luf-talkying" as a vehicle for irony and as a means of establishing man's inability to attain an ideal. Troilus plays the love game too earnestly and so is both truly comic and, in terms of final action, tragic. His attainment of distance for veiwing his failure in the end warns against playing too seriously.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.