The Eighth Sphere: A Note on Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde", V, 1809.
- Author / Editor
- Bloomfield, Morton W.
The Eighth Sphere: A Note on Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde", V, 1809.
- Published
- Modern Language Review 53 (1958): 408-10.
- Description
- Argues that the correct reading of TC 5.1809 is the eighth sphere (not seventh as in some manuscripts), and that Chaucer's "making use consciously or unconsciously of an old tradition, placed his hero for all eternity in the sphere of the fixed stars, the ogdoad."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations