Eagles Mating with Doves: Troilus and Criseyde, II, 925-931, Inferno V and Purgatorio IX
- Author / Editor
- Clarke, K. P.
Eagles Mating with Doves: Troilus and Criseyde, II, 925-931, Inferno V and Purgatorio IX
- Published
- N&Q 251 (2006): 297-99.
- Description
- The white eagle of Criseyde's dream of TC 2.925-931 is a "superimposition of the eagle of Purgatorio IX and the doves of Inferno V"; it links the love affair of TC with that of Dante's ruined Paolo and Francesca. The mating of doves and eagles in Criseyde's speech of 3.1492-98 is not the impossibilium it would appear to be, in keeping with the inevitability of Criseyde's betrayal of Troilus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.