'Is This a Mannes Herte?': Unmanning Troilus Through Ovidian Allusion

Author / Editor
McInerney, Maud Burnett.

Title
'Is This a Mannes Herte?': Unmanning Troilus Through Ovidian Allusion

Published
Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the 'Canterbury Tales' and 'Troilus and Criseyde' (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 221-35.

Description
Chaucer plays with Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in his characterization of Troilus in bk. 3, examining the nature of masculinity by depicting Troilus as a "man trapped between two literary modes of loving."

Alternative Title
Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the 'Canterbury Tales' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.