The 'Townes Wal': A Frame for 'Fre Chois' in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Sprung, Andrew.
The 'Townes Wal': A Frame for 'Fre Chois' in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Mediaevalia 14 (1988): 127-42.
- Description
- The relationship between Troy's story and Criseyde's demonstrates Chaucer's vision of how common Destiny frames but ultimately releases individual free will. The "de casibus" frame comments on the human condition; like Troy and Criseyde, we are restrained from within and without yet retain free agency.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.