Christian Revelation and the Cruel Game of Courtly Love in Troilus and Criesyde
- Author / Editor
- Pugh, Tison.
Christian Revelation and the Cruel Game of Courtly Love in Troilus and Criesyde
- Published
- Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 379-401.
- Description
- Pugh explores the "performative cruelties" of TC--the ways the three major characters are willing to "resort to tactics of cruelty to advance their individual agendas" and the way the narrative itself displays the "pleasures of salvation" that are unavailable to the pagan characters.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.