Boccaccio, Beauvau, Chaucer : "Troilus and Criseyde": Four Perspectives on Influence
- Author / Editor
- Hanly, Michael G.
Boccaccio, Beauvau, Chaucer : "Troilus and Criseyde": Four Perspectives on Influence
- Published
- Norman, Okla. : Pilgrim Books, 1990.
- Physical Description
- 172 pp.
- Description
- Investigates "topics relevant to the central question: Did Chaucer use the 'Roman de Troyle' of Beauvau, Seneschal of Anjou," in the composition of TC? Hanly reviews a number of candidates for authorship of the "Roman" and concludes that Chaucer may well have used the French source along with the "Filostrato."
- Chapter 1 explores "the intellectual and political milieu of the late fourteenth century" to show that texts such as Beauvau's "Roman" would not have been unusual in Chaucer's time. Chapter 2 examines historical evidence to conclude that authorship of the "Roman" cannot conclusively be attributed to the fifteenth-century Louis de Beauvau.
- Chapter 3 analyzes linguistic parallels to hypothesize from "circumstantial evidence that Chaucer made use of Beauvau's French translation." And chapter 4 looks at "texts, translations, and the theme of courtly love" in Beauvau's "Roman."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.