The Puzzling Chronology of Chaucer's 'Troilus'

Author / Editor
Bessent, Benjamin R.

Title
The Puzzling Chronology of Chaucer's 'Troilus'

Published
Studia Neophilologica 41 (1969): 99-111.

Description
Considers Chaucer's "references to time" in TC in light of parallel passages in Boccaccio's "Filostrato," considering variants in TC manuscripts and arguing that Chaucer's concern with time in the poem results from his "desire to portray Criseyde as favorably as possible."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies