Kingship, Fatherhood, and the Abdication of History in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Zimmerman, Harold C.

Title
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