Troilus and the Failure of Understanding.
- Author / Editor
- Reiss,Edmund.
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