'Lovers' Consolations of Philosophy' in Boccaccio, Machaut, and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Heinrichs, Katherine.

Title
'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.