'The Monstruosity in Love': Sexual Division in Chaucer and Shakespeare

Author / Editor
Shoaf, R[ichard]. Allen.

Title
'The Monstruosity in Love': Sexual Division in Chaucer and Shakespeare

Published
Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 183-94.

Description
Shoaf comments on male separation anxiety in TC and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," suggesting that the profundity of the poets' realizations underlies their aesthetic power.

Alternative Title
Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues and Literary Relations.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion