The Clandestine Marriage of Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Maguire, John B.
The Clandestine Marriage of Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Chaucer Review 8 (1974): 262-78.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer encourages his audience to "view the affair between Troilus and Criseyde as a clandestine marriage rather than as an illicit love affair," different from the analogous relationship in Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and consistent with medieval descriptions of troth-lighting and marital contracts. The love in TC is neither fornicatory nor sinful, but idealized.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations