"Al for some conclusioun": Trinitarian Structure and the Final Stanza of Chaucer's "Troilus"
- Author / Editor
- Stinson, Timothy.
"Al for some conclusioun": Trinitarian Structure and the Final Stanza of Chaucer's "Troilus"
- Published
- Chaucer Review 58, no. 1 (2023): 1-34.
- Description
- Examines the last stanza of TC, the first three lines of which are translated almost verbatim from Dante''s "Paradiso" (14.28-30), and argues that the ending not only affirms Chaucer's debt to Dante, but is crucial for an understanding of the poem. Contends that TC, while a cohesive whole, "is divided into thirds, even as it is divided in half," which has "important implications for interpretive cruxes surrounding the poem."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification