Significance of a Day in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Owen, Charles A., Jr.
Significance of a Day in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Mediaeval Studies 22 (1960): 366-70.
- Description
- Explores the events of a single day in the first half of Book 2 of TC, particularly changes Chaucer made to Boccaccio "Filostrato," showing how this section helps to characterize Pandarus and Criseyde. Argues that the "muted contrast" between the framing "swallows-stanza" (2.64-70) and the "nightingale-stanza" (2.918-24)--neither in Boccaccio--indicates the paradoxes of love in the poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations