The Audience of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Mehl, Dieter.
The Audience of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 173-89.
- Description
- Explains how TC "creates its own audience" through the narrator's addresses to readers/listeners that help to involve them as putative lovers, as judges of the characters, and, most importantly, as participants in the making of historical fiction and meaning. Compares Chaucer's techniques with those of novelists such as Laurence Sterne and Jane Austen.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde