Kingship, Fatherhood, and the Abdication of History in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Zimmerman, Harold C.
Kingship, Fatherhood, and the Abdication of History in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Neophilologus 98.01 (2014): 129-44
- Description
- Discusses how Chaucer, while aware of Boccaccio's text, continually downplays Priam's political side in order to emphasize "his interpersonal or familial bond," thus seeking "to interpret events and characters in terms of their most immediate personal setting or, when pressed, by eternal truths such as Love or Fortune."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations