An Essay at the Logic of 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Sims, David
An Essay at the Logic of 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Cambridge Quarterly 4.2 (1969): 125-49.
- Description
- Uses TC to show why Boethius "so compelled Chaucer's imagination" and demonstrates that the outcome of Chaucer's plot is "fitting" to the characters as established earlier in the poem. Focuses on Troilus's Boethian soliloquy and on Criseyde's persuasion of Troilus to accept the parliament's decision that she leave Troy, considering necessity, love, psychology, particularity, and inevitable tragic outcome, and making comparisons with works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Proust, and E. M. Forster.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion