'For All That Comth, Comth by Necessitee': Chaucer's Critique of Fourteenth-Century Boethianism in 'Troilus and Criseyde' IV, 957-58

Author / Editor
Utz, Richard J.

Title
'For All That Comth, Comth by Necessitee': Chaucer's Critique of Fourteenth-Century Boethianism in 'Troilus and Criseyde' IV, 957-58

Published
Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 21 (1996): 29-32.

Description
In TC, Chaucer adapts Boethian thought to expose the dangers of the radical determinism of John Wyclif. Such determinism fails to remedy Troilus's loss of Criseyde, posing dangers to society as well as to the individual.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.