Theology and Intention in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Gallagher, Joseph E.
Theology and Intention in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 7.1 (1972): 44-66.
- Description
- Reads TC as a sinful poetic act, acknowledged as such by Chaucer in Ret (CT 10.1086). Passionate love and Christian love are "irreconcilable" in the poem, and from the Proem of Book 3 forward, Chaucer employs an "intensifying program of disguise" of this irreconcilability, which constitutes his willful and knowing attempt to "evade the strict terms of medieval religion."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Chaucer's Retraction