Troilus and the Failure of Understanding.

Author / Editor
Reiss,Edmund.

Title
Troilus and the Failure of Understanding.

Published
Modern Language Quarterly 29 (1968): 131-44.

Description
Questions whether Troilus has gained wisdom by the end of TC and explores what is evident as true wisdom in PF. Although Troilus's laughter indicates his contempt for the world, the hero does not realize fully the hierarchical nature of love that is expressed in PF and elsewhere in Chaucer's works.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Parliament of Fowls