'Verray goddes apes': Troilus, Seynt Idiot, and Festive Culture
- Author / Editor
- Parson, Ben.
'Verray goddes apes': Troilus, Seynt Idiot, and Festive Culture
- Published
- Chaucer Review 45 (2011): 275-98.
- Description
- Chaucer draws upon the festive tradition of mock saints early in TC to poke fun at "the pretensions of 'fin amor'"; as the poem progresses, the inversions of carnival come to represent "a necessary part of being a lover." By the time Troilus laughs at the world and all its woes, festivity's alternative perspective has become equated with transcendence.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde