'Sikernesse' and Fortune in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Di Pasquale, Pasquale, Jr.
'Sikernesse' and Fortune in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 49 (1970): 152-63.
- Description
- Contends that both Troilus and Criseyde submit to Fortune in TC by pursuing a form of worldly "sikernesse" (security), reflecting their lack of the awareness advised by Philosophy in Boethius's "Consolation." Only after leaving the world does Troilus gain true security, conveying theological wisdom in a manner described in Boccaccio's "Genealogy of the Gods."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations