The Elizabethan Epyllion: Its Art and Narrative Conventions

Author / Editor
Jahn, Jerald Duane.

Title
The Elizabethan Epyllion: Its Art and Narrative Conventions

Published
DAI 33.05 (1972): 2331A.

Description
Describes and exemplifies the Renaissance genre of epyllion (minor epic), including, as background, discussion of KnT and TC as examples of works that dramatize a hero's "confrontation with the tragedy of mutable love" presented by a distancing narrator--a combination common in the epyllia.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde