'Troilus the Syke': Boethian Medical Imagery in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Tkacz, Catherine Brown.

Title
'Troilus the Syke': Boethian Medical Imagery in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Ball State University Forum 24:3 (1983): 3-12.

Description
As Deiphebus observes (TC 2.1572), Troilus is indeed "sick" from love. Following Boethian medical imagery in "Consolatio," bk. 1, Chaucer interprets his passion as a moral disease: Troilus declines through affection, passion,and bestiality into death.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.