Reading Chaucer's Calkas: Prophecy and Authority in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Espie, Jeff, and Sarah Star.
Reading Chaucer's Calkas: Prophecy and Authority in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 51.3 (2016): 382-401.
- Description
- Examines Chaucer's original characterization of Calkas through the ways it diverges from the representation of this character in earlier versions. Chaucer presents him as a human individual whose words are not necessarily to be trusted, introducing skepticism into multiple levels of the poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations