Capaneus's Atheism and Criseyde's Reading in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Simpson, James.
Capaneus's Atheism and Criseyde's Reading in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Richard Firth Green and R. F. Yeager, eds. "Of latine and of othire lare": Essays in Honour of David R. Carlson (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2022), pp. 67-81.
- Description
- Discloses the implications--some "shocking"--of recognizing Statius's "Thebaid" as the source of Criseyde's imagining of "radical atheism" in TC, IV.1408-11. Explicates resonances of Thebes/Trojan parallels evident elsewhere in the poem and in medieval Troy material more generally. Includes a summary of the development of source study of Theban material in TC from the nineteenth century to the present.
- Alternative Title
- "Of latine and of othire lare": Essays in Honour of David R. Carlson
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations