"Troilus and Criseyde": The Inviolability of the Ending.

Description: Examines the "shifts in point of view, authorial intrusion, changes in subject, and multiple closures" of the final seventeen stanzas of TC, reading their structure closely, and arguing that they produce an "artistic disorder, the purpose of which is to focus the reader's attention on the narrator" and contribute to his characterization as timid, doubtful, and ambivalent--an object of amusement for poet and audience alike, and also, perhaps, an explanation why Chaucer revokes TC in Ret.