Chaucer and Huizinga : The Spirit of Homo Ludens

Author / Editor
Schoeck, Richard J.

Title
Chaucer and Huizinga : The Spirit of Homo Ludens

Published
Constance S. Wright and Julia Bolton Holloway, eds. Tales Within Tales: Apuleius Through Time: Essays in Honor of Professor Emeritus Richard J. Schoeck (New York: AMS Press, 2000), pp. 97-106.

Description
Explores various kinds of game or play in TC: rhetorical games, war games, courtly games, and the games of life. Suggests Troilus may be seen as homo ludens (man playing).

Alternative Title
Tales Within Tales: Apuleius Through Time: Essays in Honor of Professor Emeritus Richard J. Schoeck.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.