Seeing Through Windows in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Dobbs, Elizabeth Ann
Seeing Through Windows in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 32 (1998): 400-22.
- Description
- TC contains a series of images of windows both open and closed, which are added to (or changed from) Chaucer's sources and which provide a commentary on the relationships between the lovers. Views out of windows are limited views, or "fictions," representing and summarizing one meaning of the poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.