A Boethian Approach to the Problem of Genre in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
McAlpine, Monica Ellen.

Title
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