Antigone's Song as "Mirour" in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Borthwick, Sister Mary Charlotte.
Antigone's Song as "Mirour" in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 22 (1961): 227-35.
- Description
- Reads Antigone's song (TC 2.827-75) as a "reply to Criseyde's objections to love" which precedes it in the narrative. Much of the song derives from Guillaume de Machaut's "Paradis d'Amour," but its sequence and several ideas mirror Criseyde's earlier ruminations, anticipate "the attitudes toward love which will govern the development of the whole poem," and reflect "the action and imagery of the passages preceding and following it."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
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