'Fere' and 'Drede' in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Watanabe, Ikuo.

Title
'Fere' and 'Drede' in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Tenri Daigaku Gakuho 121 (1979): 77-94.

Description
The main characters in TC are oppressed in various senses. How to enhance and ennoble them despite their unfortunate situation is one of Chaucer's undertakings. He cannot, however, free himself from the given conditions of the Trojan cycle. Hence his own fear prevails in the whole narrative.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.