Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Pearcy, Roy J.

Title
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.