"I nolde sette at al that noys a grote': Repudiating Infamy in "Troilus and Criseyde" and "The House of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- Blamires, Alcuin.
"I nolde sette at al that noys a grote': Repudiating Infamy in "Troilus and Criseyde" and "The House of Fame."
- Published
- Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 344-51.
- Description
- Surveys classical and medieval skeptical views of the significance of fame and contrasts the attitudes toward reputation expressed by Criseida in Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and Criseyde in TC, focusing on the heroines' views about infamy before leaving Troy. Chaucer's character briefly rejects the opinions of others and, like the narrator of HF, "glimps[es] something interesting about personal sufficiency," without ultimately disregarding reputation.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
House of Fame