"He in salte teres dreynte": Understanding Troilus's Tears.

Author / Editor
Meecham-Jones, Simon.

Title
"He in salte teres dreynte": Understanding Troilus's Tears.

Published
Stephanie Downes, Andrew Lynch, and Katrina O'Loughlin, eds. Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 77–97.

Description
Considers the concept of "manhod" (3.428) in TC in relation to critical discussions of Troilus's masculinity, reading Troilus's emotions in light of late medieval literary and social conventions and arguing that Chaucer's experiment in emotion is neither conventional nor condemnatory: "Troilus attempts to fashion a wholly original performance of masculinity in his loving of Criseyde."

Contributor
Downes, Stephanie , ed.
Lynch, Andrew, ed.
O'Loughlin, Katrina, ed.

Alternative Title
Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde