What Shakespeare Did to Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Bradbrook, M. C.
What Shakespeare Did to Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Shakespeare Quarterly 9.3 (1958): 311-19.
- Description
- Argues that "[c]ompression and inversion direct Shakespeare's use of" TC in "Troilus and Cressida," particularly, "the clear inversion of every idealistic feeling save those of Troilus is so relentless that a 'mirror image' emerges." Shakespeare "turned for his bitterest refashioning" to Chaucer's "most original parts"--the characterizations of Criseyde and Pandarus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations