"Potent Raisings": Performing Passion in Chaucer and Shakespeare.

Author / Editor
Mahler, Andreas.

Title
"Potent Raisings": Performing Passion in Chaucer and Shakespeare.

Published
Andrew James Johnston, Russell West- Pavlov, and Elisabeth Kempf, eds. Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Troilus and Cressida" (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 32-45.

Description

Maintains that Chaucer in TC and Shakespeare in "Troilus and Cressida" present love as detached from history or topicality, depicting it through irresolvable plural discourses--Platonic, Petrarchan, courtly love-sickness, and more--and thereby "performing it aesthetically, without any particular truth value but its own."

Alternative Title
Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare

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