Stretching the "Sooth": Use, Overuse, and the Consolation of "Sooth" in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Clark, Laura.

Title
Stretching the "Sooth": Use, Overuse, and the Consolation of "Sooth" in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Neophilologus 99 (2015): 493-504.

Description
Examines how uses of "sooth" characterize the three main actors in TC. Claims that Chaucer's use "of sooth" also "produces tension" in TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Language and Word Studies