A Boethian Approach to the Problem of Genre in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- McAlpine, Monica Ellen.
A Boethian Approach to the Problem of Genre in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- DAI 33.12 (1973): 6877-78A.
- Description
- Reads TC as a critique of the "old tragic idea" of fall through fortune, emphasizing the poem's concern with human choice derived from Boethius's "Consolation," and observing a "Boethian comedy" in Troilus and a "Boethian tragedy" in Criseyde. TC discloses the "limitations of all tragedies and comedies" as interpretations of human life, which only God can judge.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations