The Elizabethan Epyllion: Its Art and Narrative Conventions
- Author / Editor
- Jahn, Jerald Duane.
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