Putting Boethius into Chaucer's "Boece": The Ethics of Authorship in the "Boke of Coumfort."
- Author / Editor
- Nielsen, Melinda.
Putting Boethius into Chaucer's "Boece": The Ethics of Authorship in the "Boke of Coumfort."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 54.4 (2019): 441-63.
- Description
- Discusses the silence of Chaucer on the life of Boethius in Bo, then moves to examine a fifteenth-century translation of Boethius, based on Bo, that expands and adds to Chaucer's text, including material focused on Boethius himself. Traces and identifies the material that this translator uses to augment Bo.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Boece
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion