'Troilus' 'Predestination Soliloquy' and Machaut's 'Jugement du Roy de Behaigne'

Author / Editor
Heinrichs, Katherine.

Title
'Troilus' 'Predestination Soliloquy' and Machaut's 'Jugement du Roy de Behaigne'

Published
Moyen Francais 35-36 (1994-95): 7-15

Description
Explores similarities between the love-lorn knight of Machaut's "Jugement" and Troilus, including their mutual concern with Fortune and their misunderstanding of Providence, their failure to comprehend human freedom, and the ways their speeches combine seriocomic befuddlement with earnest philosophical inquiry.

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