Biblical "Figura" in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde," ll. 1380–86: "As don thise rokkes or thise milnestones."

Author / Editor
Besserman, Lawrence.

Title
Biblical "Figura" in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde," ll. 1380–86: "As don thise rokkes or thise milnestones."

Published
Chaucer Review 49.3 (2015): 344-51.

Description
Notes that the visual imagery of falling rocks and millstones Pandarus uses to convince Troilus of his future success is associated with death and destruction in the Bible, which actually undermines Pandarus's argument in TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde