C. S. Lewis, Courtly Love, and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Beach, Charles Franklyn.

Title
C. S. Lewis, Courtly Love, and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
CSL: The Bulletin of The New York C. S. Lewis Society 26. 4-5 (1995): 1-11.

Description
Describes C. S. Lewis's formulation of courtly love and applies it to TC, arguing that Chaucer exaggerates certain of its features to show its "weaknesses" (particularly through humor, Pandarus, and the narrator) and to replace it with divine love.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde