Boccaccio, Chaucer, and the Legendary Cressida
- Author / Editor
- Kellogg, Laura Dowell.
Boccaccio, Chaucer, and the Legendary Cressida
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1991): 909A.
- Description
- The narrators of Filostrato and TC, both selfishly motivated, create irony through their misconceptions of Cressida's traditional image. Although Boccaccio's narrator distorts Boethius and Dante, Chaucer's narrator represents Criseyde's flaw as "lack of prudence" and revises the ending from condemnation of Criseyde to contemplation of mutability.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.