Troilus and Cressida in the Light of Day: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Murtaugh, Daniel M.

Title
Troilus and Cressida in the Light of Day: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer.

Published
English 65 (2016): 191-210.

Description
Claims that in reworking TC, Shakespeare "turns it inside out": the work of creating Criseyde's double image shifts from the narrator to Troilus, who also embodies the narrator's "longing and dread of the erotic," and eye-witness testimony fills the role of Chaucer's "olde bokes."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion