The Narrator and His Audience: A Study of Chaucer's Troilus.

Description: Considers love in TC in light of medieval understandings of "caritas" and "cupiditas," identifying several specifically Christian details in the poem, and assessing tensions between its Christianity and the "religion" of courtly love. Argues that the Narrator "accentuates tensions between the two religions," setting himself up as "sort of anti-pope," but unable to detach himself emotionally from his protagonists. In the end, Chaucer speaks in "propria persona" resolving the tensions produced by the Narrator's ambiguities.