Troilus And Criseyde Quotes

“The very eyeballs in your skull look dead.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

“Not knowing, in his misery, for the nonce,
What he was doing, he rushed away at once”
― Chaucer Geoffry Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

“Troilus and Criseyde is a poem about loss, communal as well as private; the poem is centrally concerned with the construction of the aristocratic subject for loss, for the delectation and transvaluation of loss, and with the production of an aristocratic poetry whose future is figured as equally uncertain.”
― R. Allen Shoaf, Chaucer's Troilus & Criseyde: Subgit to Alle Poesye: Essays in Criticism