Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' and the Idea of 'Pleye'

Author / Editor
Harvey, Nancy Lenz.

Title
Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' and the Idea of 'Pleye'

Published
David G. Allen and Robert A. White, eds. The Work of Dissimilitude: Essays from the Sixth Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992), pp. 48-56.

Description
Chaucer plays on his audience's awareness that Boccaccio (not Lollius) is the true source of TC; he also engages in similar play between the pagan setting of the poem and its Christian message.

Alternative Title
The Work of Dissimilitude: Essays from the Sixth Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

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