'Troilus and Criseyde': Poet and Narrator
- Author / Editor
- Salter, Elizabeth.
'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.