Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Benson, C. David.
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- London: Unwin Hyman, 1990.
- Physical Description
- x, 226 pp.
- Description
- Chaucer's transformations of his sources produced a work that invites multiple and open-ended responses. Benson contrasts TC and its source, Boccaccio's Filostrato; he assesses medieval and modern readership of TC; and he considers the story of Troy and its role in TC.
- Focusing on character, love, fortune, and Christianity, he shows that Chaucer's goal was aesthetic rather than didactic, and that even though Chaucer assumed a medieval Christian audience, his poem provoked and continues to provoke a wide variety of valid critical responses.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Troilus and Criseyde.