Transgression, the End of Troilus, and the Ending of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Papka, Claudia Rattazi.
Transgression, the End of Troilus, and the Ending of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 32 (1998): 267-81
- Description
- Chaucer refuses to allow closure in TC, either for Troilus or for the poem itself. For Chaucer, transgression is inevitable, closure is impossible, and the poet seems to "celebrate" this fact.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.