Chaucer and the Polis: Piety and Desire in the 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Bloomfield, Josephine.
Chaucer and the Polis: Piety and Desire in the 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Modern Philology 94 (1997): 291-304.
- Description
- Although Chaucer's narrator is sympathetic to the hero of TC, Troilus's "stellification" contradicts our expectations because he values his own desires over the welfare of the polis. Chaucer's "political and moral judgment against Troilus's behavior" may reflect guarded criticism of the courts of Edward III and Richard II.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.