A Ricardian 'I': The Narrator of 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Spearing, A. C.

Title
A Ricardian 'I': The Narrator of 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarenden, 1997), pp. 1-22.

Description
Surveys critical opinion about the narrator of TC, arguing that the narrator is not best regarded as unreliable, that it is difficult to separate narrator from author, and that is is unwise or impossible to construct a single stable narratorial persona from the poem.

Alternative Title
Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.