Mythological Lovers in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Heinrichs, Katherine.

Title
Mythological Lovers in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 12 (1991): 13-39.

Description
Mythological lovers alluded to in TC were associated in medieval letters with "amor stultus," foolish love. Allusions to Oenone, Tereus and Procne, Orpheus and Eurydice, and Myrrha help characterize the love of Troilus and Criseyde as foolish, thereby foreshadowing the message of the epilogue.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.