Chaucerian Minstrelsy : Sir Thopas, Troilus and Criseyde and English Metrical Romance

Author / Editor
Bradbury, Nancy Mason.

Title
Chaucerian Minstrelsy : Sir Thopas, Troilus and Criseyde and English Metrical Romance

Published
Rosalind Field, ed. Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999), pp. 115-24.

Description
Argues that Chaucer's reception of native romance in TC is more positive and artistically significant than has been previously recognized. After examining the elements of metrical romance in Th and arguing that it parodies one extreme of Chaucer's own poetic practice, the essay concludes that TC and Th show Chaucer's ambivalent use of the romance tradition.

Contributor
Field, Rosalind, ed.

Alternative Title
Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Tale of Sir Thopas.