Sartorial Signs in Troilus and Criseyde

Abstract

Geoffrey Chaucer's costume signs, metaphors, and allusions in Troilus and Criseyde 1 collectively comprise a more substantive list than has been analyzed previously, a list that includes widow's weeds with appropriate headdress, armor, weapons, coat armor, two rings, one or two brooches, hoods, shirts, furred cloak, pilgrim's weeds, a sleeve, and a glove. Further, his methodology in deploying a number of significant costume images and his skill in doing so are overlooked by the majority of critics. Pregnant with literary as well as contemporary social and moral significance, these images function as sartorial metaphors which highlight the plot structure while they explicate and elucidate characterization. In addition, an assessment of Chaucer's sartorial images in Troilus and Criseyde offers insight into this poet's poetic technique of employing costume rhetoric.

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