Creator and Created: The Generic Perspective of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Zimbardo, Rose A.

Title
Creator and Created: The Generic Perspective of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Chaucer Review 11 (1977): 283-98.

Description
The epilogue to TC emphasizes the poem's double perspective of man as an active character in life's drama and of man deliberately separating himself from reality to perceive it objectively. This problem reflects the dilemma of the artist, who is at the same time both participant and observer in his creation.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.