Chaucer's 'Troilus,' Boccaccio's 'Filostrato,' and the Poetics of Closure
- Author / Editor
- Dean, James.
Chaucer's 'Troilus,' Boccaccio's 'Filostrato,' and the Poetics of Closure
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 64 (1985): 175-84.
- Description
- Chaucer alters Boccaccio's antifeminism and practical conclusion to "Il Filostrato" to emphasize contempt of the world and poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.