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“This is an exhaustive, brilliant thinking-through of almost every detail in Chaucer’s Troilus and Crisyede. The tragic argument is that Troilus is a noble figure, through his philosophy and through the ennobling features of love, who loves Criseyde too much, and falls into all sorts of follies.” Read more...
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer: A Reading List
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