'Troilus and Criseyde': Poet and Narrator

Author / Editor
Salter, Elizabeth.

Title
'Troilus and Criseyde': Poet and Narrator

Published
Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 281-91.

Description
Chaucer acknowledged his difficult role in using his "matere" --Boccaccio's "Filostrato"--and asked his reader to accept Criseyde kindly. Chaucer's transformation of the shallow Criseyde of Boccaccio into the complex woman of TC caused his "nervous breakdown," and thus he turned to the conclusion of Boccaccio's "Teseida" to reach a clear judgment of her.

Alternative Title
Acts of Interpretation.

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