The Hero of the "Troilus."
- Author / Editor
- David, Alfred.
The Hero of the "Troilus."
- Published
- Speculum 37 (1962): 566-81.
- Description
- Traces the development of Troilus' character in TC, arguing that he grows from ignorance to wisdom in confronting the "fundamental mystery of the human condition": his noble, "tragic error . . . is to have tried to love a human being with an ideal spiritual love." In this light, the poem is an "exemplum of "Boethius' lesson that life within time derives from and reflects the life beyond time"; its "final effect" is a "sense of profound exaltation."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations