Dramatic Elements in Chaucer's 'Troilus'

Description: Describes the five-act "pyramidal" structure, rising and falling action, clear-cut scene divisions, dialogue, three unities, courtly love conventions, balance and parallelism, and other dramatic elements in TC, commenting on similarities to classical and Shakespearean plays. Then argues that the climax and catastrophe of TC make it more a martyr play than a tragedy, and that the final fourteen stanzas have a pyramidal structure of their own.