The Countervailing Aesthetic of Joy in Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Hill, John M.
The Countervailing Aesthetic of Joy in Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 280-97
- Description
- Hill argues that Troilus's pagan, earthly joy in the second half of Book 3 of TC is Chaucer's representation of "the maximum of good and beauty to be found outside of Christian belief and the dispensations of faith." The intense joy experienced by the lovers is the apex of worldly sufficiency, temporarily safe from worldly threat and rendered powerful through Chaucer's indications of universality.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.