Opaque Style and Its Uses in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Lanham, Richard A.
Opaque Style and Its Uses in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Studies in Medieval Culture 3 (1970): 169-76.
- Description
- Assesses Pandarus, Troilus, and Criseyde as prisoners of their own rhetorics (proverbial wisdom, courtliness, and expediency, respectively) and the social conventions that attend them, reading TC as a "comedy about man's inevitable imprisonment in bonds of his own making, those of social conventions." The palinode reflects Troilus's escape from such imprisonment.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Style and Versification