"Troilus and Criseyde": A Reconsideration.
- Author / Editor
- Salter, Elizabeth.
"Troilus and Criseyde": A Reconsideration.
- Published
- John Lawlor, ed. Patterns of Love and Courtesy: Essays in Memory of C. S. Lewis (London: Edward Arnold, 1966), pp. 86-106.
- Description
- Interprets the discontinuities and disunities of TC for the ways that they reveal the "growth and release" of Chaucer's creative imagination, reading them as evidence of his "dissatisfaction" with the characterization of Criseyde and the nature of love depicted in Boccaccio's "Filostrato." In Books 1-3 Chaucer develops the "unsuspected potential in his sources," while Books 4-5 reveal the "process of disenchantment" and submission to the authority of tradition.
- Alternative Title
- Patterns of Love and Courtesy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations