Premium Content Why Don't We Like Troilus?
By Alex May - March 01, 2003
Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' opens to the ringing tones of Troilus's 'double sorwe'. From the first lines it is ascertained that he is the main character of the poem, no matter how attractive Pandarus and Criseyde appear. Troilus' heartbreak, explained in 8,000 glorious lines, is the subject of some contention amongst the poem's various…
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