Chaucer's Use of the Apostrophe in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Koretsky, Allen C.
Chaucer's Use of the Apostrophe in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 4.4 (1970): 242-66.
- Description
- Describes the presence of apostrophe ("exclamatio") in TC and assesses its various effects: amplification, heightening of style, advancement of plot, and characterization--especially of Troilus, Criseyde, and the narrator, but also of Pandarus, Antigone, and Diomede.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Style and Versification