The Difficult Fifth Book of 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Hussey, S. S.
The Difficult Fifth Book of 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Modern Language Review 67 (1972): 721-29.
- Description
- Treats various features of book 5 of TC (lack of proem, several amplifications, various sources) as "apparently gratuitous or insufficiently integrated matter," evidence that Chaucer intended to write his poem in four books but found that he needed a fifth to convey a sense of duration. Also suggests that Chaucer released his work without completing the process of revision he applied to earlier books.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde