Criseyde's Rein
- Author / Editor
- Sundwall, McKay.
Criseyde's Rein
- Published
- Chaucer Review 11 (1976): 156-63.
- Description
- The germ of Chaucer's phrase "and by the reyne hire hente" is found in Benoit's "Roman de Troie." Benoit uses a similar phrase four times. This is further evidence that Chaucer was conflating Boccaccio and Benoit.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.