Action and Passion in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Crampton, Georgia R[onan].
Action and Passion in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Published
- Medium Aevum 43 (1974): 22-36.
- Description
- Argues that TC "gains psychological interest and what may be called a novelistic effect" through adaptation of the "to do and to suffer" topos. Troilus is "a man of passion who suffers," Pandarus is "a man of action who contrives," and Criseyde "alternately suffers and acts," seeking to act without ever achieving agency.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde