The Word of Apollo: Prophecy and Vatic Poetry in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" and William Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida."

Author / Editor
Stenner, Rachel.

Title
The Word of Apollo: Prophecy and Vatic Poetry in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" and William Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida."

Published
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 259-82.

Description
Argues that allusion to Apollo in TC conveys an ambivalent attitude toward literary authority by affiliating it with sexual violence, an ambivalence that Shakespeare echoes in "Troilus and Cressida." Both writers use Apollo to problematize intertextuality and "allow the shadow of sexual violence to hover in the background of their texts as a means to question the foundations of poetic prophecy."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde