'Lovers' Consolations of Philosophy' in Boccaccio, Machaut, and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Heinrichs, Katherine.
'Lovers' Consolations of Philosophy' in Boccaccio, Machaut, and Chaucer
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 (1989): 93-115.
- Description
- Boccaccio's "Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta" and Machaut's "Jugement dou Roy de Behaingne" parody Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" as "a source of humor and as a means of characterization." Troilus's Boethian soliloquy (TC 4.960-1082) exploits and extends this medieval convention.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Troilus and Criseyde.