The Role of Calkas in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Greenfield, Stanley B.
The Role of Calkas in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Medium Aevum 36.2 (1967): 141-51.
- Description
- Compares and contrasts the characterizations of Calkas in the Troy stories of Guido, Benoit, Boccaccio, and Chaucer, arguing that in TC he is depicted so as to ridicule "astrology-prophetism" even while contributing to the poem's "atmosphere of destinal determinism." Comments on the style of Calkas's speaking in TC, on the "condemnation of judicial astrology" in Astr, and on Calkas's role as "a thematic and structural counterpoint" to Troilus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Treatise on the Astrolabe
Style and Versification