Some Traditions of Poetical Pathology in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Fleming, John V.
Some Traditions of Poetical Pathology in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Susan J. Ridyard, ed. Death, Sickness, and Health in Medieval Society (Sewanee, Tenn.: University of the South, 2000), pp. 123-32.
- Description
- Describes Chaucer's fusion of sources--Boccaccio, Boethius, the Bible, and Horace--in his presentation of Troilus' love as sickness and as analogous to the art of writing, focusing on Troilus' complaints and Pandarus' advice about letter-writing.
- Contributor
- Ridyard, Susan J., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Death, Sickness, and Health in Medieval Society.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations