Chance and Destiny in 'Troilus and Criseyde' and the 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Mann, Jill.

Title
Chance and Destiny in 'Troilus and Criseyde' and the 'Knight's Tale'

Published
Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 75-92.

Description
Chaucer painstakingly "alerts" his sources in Boethius and Boccaccio to "emphasize the role of chance in the events of the narrative." Mann explores relationships among chance, "necessitee," and free will in TC and KnT.

Alternative Title
The Cambridge Chaucer Companion.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Troilus and Criseyde.