'Love that oughte ben secree' in Chaucer's 'Troilus''

Author / Editor
Windeatt, Barry

Title
'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.