Chaucer's Dealings with a Stanza of "Il Filostrato" and the Epilogue of "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Kean, P. M.
Chaucer's Dealings with a Stanza of "Il Filostrato" and the Epilogue of "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Medium Aevum 33.1 (1964): 36-46.
- Description
- Close comparison of passages in TC and their sources in Boccaccio's "Filostrato" discloses how Chaucer "sets in motion" early in his poem "a train of events whose implications go far beyond the immediate moment, perhaps beyond the love story itself," evoking Boethian inevitability and the "divinely implanted tendency of the human soul to strive to return to its true source." In this light, the epilogue is a "logical conclusion" to the poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations