Troilus Bound
- Author / Editor
- Barney, Stephen A.
Troilus Bound
- Published
- Speculum 47 (1972): 445-58.
- Description
- Argues that Troilus "establishes the meaning of the events" in TC by "contemplating and exposing" their inner significance. His thoughts convey the "theme of bondage" through the imagery and language of constraint (prison and confinement, snares and bridles, thralldom, etc.) and reflect the poem's dominant concerns with love, nature, and fortune as restrictive forces. The essay also comments on the theme of constraint elsewhere in Chaucer's poetry and in the sources of TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde