This Brigous Questioun: Translating Free Will and Predestination in Walton's Boethius and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Ian.
This Brigous Questioun: Translating Free Will and Predestination in Walton's Boethius and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Carmina Philosophiae 3 (1994): 1-21, 1994.
- Description
- Compares Troilus's speech on free will and predestination (TC 4) with John Walton's poetic exposition of the source passage in Boethius 5, prose 3. Aware of TC, Walton "competes" with Chaucer and better succeeds in clearly rendering the nuances of the original, perhaps because Chaucer was hampered by having already translated the Boethian original into prose.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.