Cousin to Fortune: On Reading Chaucer's Criseyde

Author / Editor
Sell, Jonathan P. A.

Title
Cousin to Fortune: On Reading Chaucer's Criseyde

Published
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 48 (2004): 193-204.

Description
Sell identifies "verbal parallels" and "ontological similarities" between Criseyde and Chaucer's version of Boethius's Fortune. Association with Fortune undermines "sentimental views of Criseyde" that Chaucer the narrator may share though Chaucer himself may not.

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