The Eagle, the Boar, and the Self: Dreams, Daydreams, and Violence in Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Zeitoun, Franck.

Title
The Eagle, the Boar, and the Self: Dreams, Daydreams, and Violence in Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Cercles 6: 45-53, 2003.

Description
Zeitoun studies dreams and daydreams in TC, especially daydreaming in Book 1, Criseyde's dream of the eagle, and Troilus's dream of the boar. Violence in the poem has less to do with war than with the internal states of the characters; these states are allegories of love and symbols of the characters' lack of free will.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.