Troilus and Criseyde: Studies in Interpretation.

Published: [Tokyo]: Hokuseido, 1956. Rpt. Norwood, PA: Norwood Editions, 1975.

Description: Praises the art and skill of Chaucer's adaptations of sources and literary conventions in creating TC, comparing and contrasting the plot and characterizations of the work with those of a full range of its "literary progenitors" and exploring Chaucer's innovative transformations of the style and rhetoric of interpolated songs and letters, his dexterity with atmosphere and character psychology, and his uses of courtly conventions. Pays particular attention to Criseyde's laughter and Chaucer's admiration of her, the literary history of Diomedes, and Troilus's subjugation to the paradoxes of love. Reads much of the poem as expressing Chaucer's own views.

Chaucer Subjects: Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification