Acedia as a Motive in Troilus' Tragedy

Author / Editor
Lee, Noh Kyung

Title
Acedia as a Motive in Troilus' Tragedy

Published
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 15 (2007): 271-87.

Description
In Korean, with English abstract.
Inactivity is Troilus's "tragic flaw," but it is also what makes his love noble and "ideal." His inactivity is contrasted by the "practical" and ignoble activity of both Pandarus and Diomedes.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde