Artistry in Troilus and Criseyde: A Study of Chronology, Structure, Characterization, and Purpose.

Author / Editor
Thompson, Louis Felsinger.

Title
Artistry in Troilus and Criseyde: A Study of Chronology, Structure, Characterization, and Purpose.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts 20.05 (1959): 1771.

Description
Compares TC with Boccaccio's "Filostrato," arguing that Chaucer "adapted more portions" of it "than has previously been noticed," subordinating formulas, conventions, thematic concerns, and moral concerns to artful construction and "psychological realism."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification