Apropos the Love Plot in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida

Author / Editor
Longo, Joseph A.

Title
Apropos the Love Plot in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida

Published
Cahiers Elisabethains 11 (1977): 1-15.

Description
In Chaucer's TC and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," the actions focused on the lovers are remarkably alike in general contours and specific internal resonances, a resemblance which points to Chaucer as Shakespeare's source. Chaucer shows a clash of people with differing emotional and philosophical assumptions, Shakespeare a clash of abstract creeds.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.