The 'Townes Wal': A Frame for 'Fre Chois' in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Sprung, Andrew.

Title
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.