'Auctoritee' and Allusion in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Fyler, John M.

Title
'Auctoritee' and Allusion in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Res Publica Litterarum 7 (1984): 73-92.

Description
In TC, especially bks. 2 and 4, Chaucer selected and reconstituted details from Dante and the classics for ironic purposes, treating sources as "history." Appendix: Petrarch's annotations to "Aeneid."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.