'Of Your Herte Up Casteth the Visage': Turning Troilo/Troilus's Eyes to God

Author / Editor
Lee, Jenny.

Title
'Of Your Herte Up Casteth the Visage': Turning Troilo/Troilus's Eyes to God

Published
Hortulus 3.1 (2007): n. p.

Description
Although he derives it from Boccaccio, Chaucer alters the topos of the lover's gaze at the end of TC, transforming it into a Boethian, Christian vision of God. The article includes a coda on Criseyde's prudential "third eye."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary relations.