The Double Time Scheme in Book II of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Longo, Joseph A.

Title
The Double Time Scheme in Book II of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Modern Language Quarterly 22 (1961): 37-40.

Description
Examines references to times and dates in Book II of TC, arguing that Chaucer creates a double sense of time in order to convey a "rapid sequence of events" among the three main characters while also conveying through a "longer time scheme" the "gradual growth of Criseyde's love."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Style and Versification