Chaucer's Providentialism and the Meanings of 'Hap' in Boece and Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Everhart, Deborah.

Title
Chaucer's Providentialism and the Meanings of 'Hap' in Boece and Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Carmina Philosophiae 1 (1992): 35-52.

Description
Everhart considers Chaucer's translation strategies in Bo and identifies his unusual one-to-one substitution of "hap" for Latin "casus" in that work. Multiple connotations of "hap" in TC imply a different, playful rhetoric of translation that in turn reflects the limits of language and human perception.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Boece