Troilus' Paraclausithyron and Its Setting: 'Troilus and Criseyde' V, 519-602

Author / Editor
Bloomfield, Morton W.

Title
Troilus' Paraclausithyron and Its Setting: 'Troilus and Criseyde' V, 519-602

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73 (1972): 15-24.

Description
Identifies antecedents to Troilus's address to Criseyde's empty palace and his reference to its doors (the rhetorical topos "paraclausithyron"), comparing Chaucer's and Boccaccio's versions of the scene, discarding suggestions of astrological implications, and reading the passage as concerned with "the ageold theme of human mutability and the accompanying human tears."

Alternative Title
"Studies Presented to Tauno Mustanoja on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.