Love, Pity, and Reason in the 'Troilus': Chaucer's Debt to Dante
- Author / Editor
- Schembri, A. M.
Love, Pity, and Reason in the 'Troilus': Chaucer's Debt to Dante
- Published
- Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 2 (1992): 1-35.
- Description
- Influenced by Dante, Chaucer's TC represents the "dramatic interplay" of three kinds of love: "the courtly, the natural, [and] the rational." Chaucer departs from his sources, however, adapting the love of Troilus and Criseyde to an English, Christian audience.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.