Five-Book Structure in Chaucer's "Troilus."
- Author / Editor
- McCall, John P.
Five-Book Structure in Chaucer's "Troilus."
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 23 (1962): 297-308.
- Description
- Argues that the "formal and thematic design" of TC--particularly its five-book structure--reflects the "ordered argument of Lady Philosophy" in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and "reveals a new facet of Chaucer's concept of tragedy." Altering the structure of Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and inverting the "dramatic movement" of the "Consolation," Chaucer shifts comedy to tragedy by showing, through Troilus, humanity's "systematic submission to Fortune" and its "awesome consequences."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations