Chaucer and "Il Filostrato."
- Author / Editor
- Walker, Ian C.
Chaucer and "Il Filostrato."
- Published
- English Studies 49 (1968): 318-26.
- Description
- Comparative analysis shows that several changes and emphases Chaucer introduces into Boccaccio's "Filostrato" produce richer characterization in TC. All three major characters "think as well as feel" in Chaucer's poem: Troilus with his fatalism; Criseyde, "her pathetic search" for true felicity; and Pandarus, his awareness of how "slender is the tight-rope he is treading."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations