Boethius, Chaucer, and 'The Kingis Quair'

Author / Editor
Ebin, Lois A.

Title
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