Characters and Crowds in Chaucer's "Troilus."
- Author / Editor
- Russell, Nicholas.
Characters and Crowds in Chaucer's "Troilus."
- Published
- Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 50-52.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's characterization of the lovers in TC is marked by their relationships with public opinion, especially with that of "the impersonal mass of Trojans and Greeks" who are the "anti-characters" of the poem. As fortune turns against the lovers, the narrator tries to evoke a new public sympathy for the lovers, that of the poem's audience.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde