Love in Wartime : Troilus and Criseyde as Trojan History
- Author / Editor
- Lynch, Andrew.
Love in Wartime : Troilus and Criseyde as Trojan History
- Published
- Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 113-33.
- Description
- Lynch explains the centrality of the legend of Troy to European narratives as a symbol of human instability and as a mirror of the present, especially in late medieval London. In comparison to its sources, TC keeps war on the periphery of the love story: Troilus is individualized as a lover, not as a warrior, but his changing motivations as a warrior lead to suicidal wrath.
- Alternative Title
- A Concise Companion to Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.