Fortune's Friends: Forms and Figures of Friendship in the Chaucer Tradition.

Author / Editor
Neel, Travis E.

Title
Fortune's Friends: Forms and Figures of Friendship in the Chaucer Tradition.

Published
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Ohio State University, 2017). Available at http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492705588117003 (accessed May 8, 2022).

Description
Examines "how Middle English writers appropriated different forms and figures of friendship in their discussions, critiques, and activations of friendship," describing modifications of classical, biblical, Boethian, and humanist models, with recurrent attention to Chaucerian works: KnT, For, Scog, and others.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Knight and His Tale
Fortune
Envoy to Scogan