Boethius, Chaucer, and 'The Kingis Quair'
- Author / Editor
- Ebin, Lois A.
Boethius, Chaucer, and 'The Kingis Quair'
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 53 (1974): 321-41.
- Description
- Reads "The Kingis Quair" as a "direct response" to Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and to TC and KnT, taking up their concerns with Fortune. "Quair" shares the concern with worldly love found in Chaucer's two poems, although it presents love as a means to transcend fortune without the world denying aloofness required in Boethius's treatise and echoed in Chaucer's poems.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Knight and His Tale