'Love that oughte ben secree' in Chaucer's 'Troilus''
- Author / Editor
- Windeatt, Barry
'Love that oughte ben secree' in Chaucer's 'Troilus''
- Published
- Chaucer Review 14 (1979): 116-31.
- Description
- Chaucer increases Boccaccio's emphasis on the social situation of the lovers to dramatize the separation between personal and public lives. Pandarus, ever conscious of the social context, trains Troilus as the "literary" lover. The action reflects repetitive romance patterns and shows both the beauty and sincerity, and the strain and inconsistency of a literary love in a normal social scene.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.