Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Pearcy, Roy J.
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Explicator 61.2: 69-70, 2003.
- Description
- When Troilus kisses only Criseyde's eyes in TC 3.1352-55, the gesture marks a departure from Boccaccio, whose lovers kiss eyes, lips, and breasts. Following thirteenth-century French literary convention, the behavior may illustrate Chaucer's attempt to communicate the "alterity" of the antique culture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.