A Cause Study on Troilus' Passivity in Shakespeare and Chaucer

"Whi Troilus hath all this hevinesse"


Term Paper (Advanced seminar), 2017

25 Pages, Grade: 1,0


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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Themes of Passivity
2.1 Rationality Overwhelmed
2.2 Problems of Courtly Love
2.3 Passion Unbridled: The Loveris Maladye of Hereos
2.3.1 What was known to the authors?
2.3.2 Love Melancholy in Chaucer
2.3.3 Love Melancholy in Shakespeare
2.3.4 Fatalistic tendencies

3. Passivity Removed

4. Conclusion

Bibliography

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Title
A Cause Study on Troilus' Passivity in Shakespeare and Chaucer
Subtitle
"Whi Troilus hath all this hevinesse"
College
University of Göttingen  (Englisches Seminar)
Course
Shakespeare's Problem Plays
Grade
1,0
Author
Year
2017
Pages
25
Catalog Number
V376741
ISBN (eBook)
9783668539198
ISBN (Book)
9783668539204
File size
604 KB
Language
English
Keywords
Shakespeare, Chaucer, Passivity, Melancholy, Courtly Love, Troilus and Criseyde, Troilus and Cressida
Quote paper
Imke Fischer (Author), 2017, A Cause Study on Troilus' Passivity in Shakespeare and Chaucer, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/376741

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