Grace and Place in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Wetherbee, Winthrop.

Title
Grace and Place in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. 13-22.

Description
The key rhyming pair place and grace appears several times in TC, notably at the center of the poem. Up to the moment of the lovers' consummation, both words have a positive, sometimes spiritual connotation and intensity, but after that passage each term becomes associated with materiality rather than the ideal.

Alternative Title
Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Language and Word Studies
Style and Versification