Boccaccio's Il Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde : The Game of Fiction and Actual Life
- Author / Editor
- Beric, Boris.
Boccaccio's Il Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde : The Game of Fiction and Actual Life
- Published
- REAL 23.2: 77-90, 1998.
- Description
- Assesses the Proem to Boccaccio's Il Filostrato as a source for TC: the artist's "dual-self of helpless lover and ingenious artist" is split between Troilus and Pandarus, and Boccaccio's two ladies, Filomena and Criseis, "are first merged and later separated in the character of Criseyde."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.