The Seventh Sphere: A Note on "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Scott, Forrest S.

Title
The Seventh Sphere: A Note on "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Modern Language Review 51 (1956): 2-5.

Description
Offers a "third suggestion" to the discussions of what "seventhe spere" refers to in TC 5.1809, suggesting that Chaucer altered Boccaccio's eighth sphere (also a variant in TC manuscripts) and, counting inwards from the sphere of the fixed stars, locates Troilus in the sphere of Mercury.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies