Calculating Calkas : Chaucer to Henryson

Author / Editor
Duncan, Thomas G.

Title
Calculating Calkas : Chaucer to Henryson

Published
Rosalynn Voaden, ReneĢ Tixier, Teresa Sanchez Roura, and Jenny Rebecca Rytting, eds. The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp. 215-22.

Description
Considers Henryson's Testament of Cresseid as an extension of Chaucer's TC and a transformation of it-two different senses of "translation." Duncan examines the characterization of Calkas and other means of creating compassion for Cresseid.

Alternative Title
Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.