Love and Death in "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Durham, Lonnie J.

Title
Love and Death in "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Chaucer Review 3.1 (1968): 1-11.

Description
Explores the imagery of nature and death in TC, arguing that Criseyde is "representative of a principle of life" and "best understood in terms of her cyclical or seasonal progression through the poem." Pandarus is associated with mutability, and Troilus, with death and the "little death" of sex, although he is "best understood in what may be seen as an ascending spiral."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde