Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Scripps Senior Theses Scripps Student Scholarship 2019 "The oubleD Sorwe of Troilus": Experimentation of the Chivalric and Tragic Genres in Chaucer and Shakespeare Rena Patel Scripps College Recommended Citation Patel, Rena, ""The oubD le Sorwe of Troilus": Experimentation of the Chivalric and Tragic Genres in Chaucer and Shakespeare" (2019). Scripps Senior Theses. 1281. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1281 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Scripps Student Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scripps Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. “THE DOUBLE SORWE OF TROILUS”: EXPERIMENTATION OF THE CHIVALRIC AND TRAGIC GENRES IN CHAUCER AND SHAKESPEARE by RENA PATEL SUBMITTED TO SCRIPPS COLLEGE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS PROFESSOR TESSIE PRAKAS PROFESSOR ELLEN RENTZ DECEMBER 14, 2018 Table of Contents Introduction 4 “Litel myn tragedie”: Tragedy in Chaucer’s Chivalric Romance 6 “’Tis but the chance of war”: Chivalry Undermining Shakespeare’s Tragedy 11 “So thenk I n’am but ded, withoute more”: Tragedy of Chivalric Fidelity 15 “Will you walk in, my lord?”: Shakespeare’s Performative Sham of Love 24 “True as Troilus, False as Cressid”: The Endings of Troilus 32 Conclusion 35 Bibliography 37 2 Acknowledgements First and foremost, I would like to offer my deepest admiration and appreciation to Professor Tessie Prakas, without whom this thesis would have never seen the light of day. Her enthusiasm and guidance has been invaluable not just in regards to the writing process, but also in all aspects of my time at Scripps.