'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.
'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.