'Shall' and 'Will' in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Guthrie, Steven R.
'Shall' and 'Will' in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- English Studies 73 (1992): 481-92.
- Description
- In TC, "shall" and "will" are important "to the characterization and overall modal texture." Chaucer appears to adumbrate John Wallis's seventeenth-century formula that "shall" expresses the speaker's determination to perform the intended action, while "will" suggests the limits of the speaker's power to determine.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Language and Word Studies.