The Clash and the Fusion of Medieval and Renaissance Elements in Chaucer's "Troilus."

Author / Editor
McKay, Eleanor Maxine.

Title
The Clash and the Fusion of Medieval and Renaissance Elements in Chaucer's "Troilus."

Published
Dissertation Abstracts 19.10 (1959): 2615-16.

Physical Description
Ph.D. Dissertation. Emory University, 1958.

Description
Aligns Chaucer's style, themes, and characterization in TC with Renaissance humanism more than with medieval conventions, genres, and rhetoric, arguing that the poem anticipates the "poetry of Shakespeare's century" in its fusing realism, epic, and tragedy.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Style and Versification