Christian Revelation and the Cruel Game of Courtly Love in Troilus and Criesyde

Author / Editor
Pugh, Tison.

Title
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.