Time and Eternity in Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Martin, Thomas L.

Title
Time and Eternity in Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Renascence 51: 167-99, 1999.

Description
The ending of TC is unified with the rest of the poem. Its abrupt shift from pagan setting to Christian message is a structural imitation of the Boethian distinction between temporality and eternity.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.