'And Nysus doughter song with fressh entente': Tragedy and Romance in Troilus and Criseyde

Description: Differences between eschatological and historical time in TC pose parallel differences between Troilus's personal Boethian tragedy and the epic tragedy of the fall of Troy. Similarities between Criseyde and analogous women in other siege stories (in "Fouke le Fitz Waryn," John of Garland's "Parisiana Poetria," and Ovidian accounts of Scylla) suggest ways in which Criseyde is a tragic precipitator of catastrophe.