Audience as Determinant of Meaning in the "Troilus."

Author / Editor
Covella, Sister Francis Dolores.

Title
Audience as Determinant of Meaning in the "Troilus."

Published
Chaucer Review 2.4 (1968): 235-45.

Description
Considers the tone and attitude of the seventeen-stanza "Epilogue" of TC (5.1751-1869), observing a shift between the first five stanzas and the last twelve and suggesting that the latter are addressed to a reading audience rather than the original, oral one comprised of courtly men and, especially, women.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Style and Versification