Benoit's Portraits and Chaucer's General Prologue.

Physical Description: Journal of English and Germanic Philology 55 (1956): 431-38.

Description: Suggests that the "portraits" of Trojan war heroes and heroines in Benoit de Ste Maure's "Roman de Troie" are carefully individuated and arranged, and that Chaucer's "literary techniques" in the "sketches" of GP are similar to Benoit's in several ways: combination of "physical and temperamental traits," purposeful arrangement into groups, preparation for future speech or action, "conversational" framework, and the likeness of the Knight/Squire juxtaposition to that of Hector/Troilus.

Chaucer Subjects: General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations