Biblical "Figura" in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde," ll. 1380–86: "As don thise rokkes or thise milnestones."
- Author / Editor
- Besserman, Lawrence.
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