Troilus' Predestination Speech: Chaucer's Changes from Boethius.

Author / Editor
Huber, John.

Title
Troilus' Predestination Speech: Chaucer's Changes from Boethius.

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 66 (1965): 120-25.

Description
Argues that changes Chaucer made to his source, Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," in TC 4.957-1078 "emphasize Troilus' eagerness to shun responsibility by denying the very possibility of human freedom," saving "him from the need to act." Includes attention to correlative details in Bo.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, ad Literary Relations
Boece