The Errors of Good Men: 'Hamartia' in Two Middle English Poems
- Author / Editor
- Van Dyke, Carolynn.
The Errors of Good Men: 'Hamartia' in Two Middle English Poems
- Published
- Donald V. Stump and others, eds. Hamartia: The Concept of Error in the Western Tradition: Essays in Honor of John M. Crossett. Texts and Studies in Religion, vol. 16 (New York: Edwin Mellen, 1983), pp. 171-91.
- Description
- Chaucer's treatment of Troilus, the good man flawed by error, is compared to the treatment of Gawain in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," with a source study of the "Poetics" of Aristotle and "De consolatione philosophiae" of Boethius.
- Contributor
- Stump, Donald V.,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Hamartia: The Concept of Error in the Western Tradition: Essays in Honor of John M. Crossett.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.