Holding the Center: Chaucer's Book of Troilus and Dante's Commedia

Author / Editor
Kaylor, Noel Harold, (Jr.)

Title
Holding the Center: Chaucer's Book of Troilus and Dante's Commedia

Published
Medieval English Studies 8: 95-114, 2000.

Description
Relates the structure of TC (with Troilus's happiness reaching its apex at the numerical center of the poem) to structures found in Dante's "Commedia" (Divine Comedy) and to themes of fortune's changes in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy."

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