The Shape of Chaucerian Tragedy
- Author / Editor
- Kaylor, Noel Harold Jr.
The Shape of Chaucerian Tragedy
- Published
- Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska, eds. Þe Laurer of Oure Englische Tonge. Medieval English Mirror, no. 5 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang), 2009, pp. 93-105.
- Series
- Medieval English Mirror, no. 5
- Description
- The five-book structure of TC is informed both by Dante's "Divine Comedy" and by Boethius's "Consolatio," a combination that adds to the text's ambiguity. Chaucer extends Dante's three-step journey from Inferno to Heaven by adding Troilus's downward movement, thus completing Fortune's turn. At the same time, Troilus's five books parallel the steps in Boethius's epistemology of knowledge: sensing (Book I), imagining (Book II), reasoning (Books III and IV), and knowing (Book V).
- Contributor
- Krygier, Marcin, ed
- Sikorska, Liliana, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Laurer of Oure Englische Tonge.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations