Love's Fools: Aucassin, Troilus, Calisto and the Parody of the Courtly Love
- Author / Editor
- Martin, June Hall.
Love's Fools: Aucassin, Troilus, Calisto and the Parody of the Courtly Love
- Published
- London: Tamesis, 1972.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 156 pp.
- Description
- Defines "courtly love" and "parody" and examines three protagonists as parodic courtly lovers (Aucassin of the anonymous "Aucassin and Nicolette," Troilus of TC, and Calisto of Fernando de Rojas's "Celestina"), assessing them in light of Northrup Frye's anatomy of mode, romance, and mimesis. Chaucer's Troilus is "tragicomic," a "sympathetic parody" of the courtly lover and "far removed from the hero of romance." He is "essentially a high mimetic figure with tendencies to the low mimetic form," lacking the superior powers of expression characteristic of a true hero.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde