Teaching 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Strauss, Jennifer.
Teaching 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Southern Review 5 (1972): 13-20.
- Description
- Advocates a pedagogical approach that encourages students to regard "what happens to Troilus" as the central concern of TC, leading them to discover that the poem expresses a generally approving view of passionate love modified by the frustration of "aspiring to fixed joy in a world of mutability." Rejects the "allegorical" reading of the poem by D. W. Robertson Jr.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde