Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' V. 1821 and Dante's 'Paradiso' XXII. 135: Laughter and Smiles

Author / Editor
Heffernan, Carol F.

Title
Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' V. 1821 and Dante's 'Paradiso' XXII. 135: Laughter and Smiles

Published
N&Q 256 (2011): 358-60.

Description
The ludic responses depicted in these two lines bear out Barry Windeatt's assertion that Chaucer's "displacement of tragedy by comedy" at the end of TC took its inspiration from Dante's "Commedia."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations