Processes of Characterisation in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Gordon, Ida L.

Title
Processes of Characterisation in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
W. Rothwell, W. R. J. Barron, David Blamires, and Lewis Thorpe, eds. Studies in Medieval Literature and Languages in Memory of Frederick Whitehead (New York: Barnes and Noble; Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1973), pp. 117-31.

Description
Tallies Chaucer's techniques of characterization in TC and explores how and where he "manipulates his characters in the interest of his theme," identifying differences between his major characters (especially Troilus) and their sources in Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and explaining how Chaucer's narrator helps to shape perception of the characters and the theme of love.

Contributor
Rothwell, W., ed.
Barron, W. R. J., ed.
Blamires, David, ed.
Thorpe, Lewis, ed.

Alternative Title
Studies in Medieval Literature and Languages in Memory of Frederick Whitehead.

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