Brother as Problem in the Troilus

Author / Editor
O'Brien, Timothy.

Title
Brother as Problem in the Troilus

Published
Philological Quarterly 82 (2003): 125-48

Description
O'Brien examines the theme of brotherhood in TC as portrayed through the relationships of Troilus and Pandarus, Troilus and Criseyde, Diomedes and Criseyde, and the narrator and readers. The poem's ending portrays brotherly relationships as no remedy for loss.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.