What Chaucer "Really" Did to "Il Filostrato": The Ending of "Troilus" and Its Italian Sources.
- Author / Editor
- Hollander, Robert.
What Chaucer "Really" Did to "Il Filostrato": The Ending of "Troilus" and Its Italian Sources.
- Published
- Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 11 (2011): 1-28.
- Description
- Explores Chaucer's "nuanced reworkings" of his source texts in the last twelve stanzas of TC, focusing on his adaptations of Boccaccio's "Filostrato," his "Teseida," and Dante's "Commendia," but also commenting on uses of Virgil, Statius, and Boethius. Interprets the stanzas as an envoi to the poem that converts its ancient tragedy to Christian comedy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations