Some Traditions of Poetical Pathology in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Fleming, John V.

Title
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