Criseyde's Swoon and the Experience of Love in "Trolius [sic] and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Costomiris, Robert.

Title
Criseyde's Swoon and the Experience of Love in "Trolius [sic] and Criseyde."

Published
Renascence 65.4 (2013): 249-67.

Description
Argues that moral and psychological interpretations of TC--readings that judge the characters and those that empathize with their experiences--are "not as incompatible as their adherents would have us believe." Chaucer's rich depictions of his protagonists' complex agencies compel us to recognize that the two interpretive perspectives are interdependent.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde