The Significance of the Aubades in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Morgan, Gerald.

Title
The Significance of the Aubades in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Yearbook of English Studies 9 (1979): 221-35.

Description
The ironic treatment of the lovers in Book III may be clarified by examining representations of "charitas" and "cupiditas." Chaucer juxtaposes them throughout the poem and with special effect in the proem and aubades of Book III. His use and narration of source material allow the poem to create its own irony, underlining the stability of divine love as opposed to the transience of earthly love.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.