Cousin to fortuneon reading chaucer's criseyde
ISSN: 0211-5913
Année de publication: 2004
Número: 48
Pages: 193-204
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
Résumé
Chaucer's Criseyde is a self-conscious conundrum who simulraneously demands and defies coherent exegesis. This article presents a dry-eyed reading of Criseyde as a type of Boerhius's Fortune. It draws attention ro verbal parallels in the presentation of Criseyde and Chaucer's version of Boethius's Fortune, as well as ro ontological similariries between the rwo Ladies. In doing so the arride offers a correcrive ro other more sentimental views of Criseyde which Chaucer's narrator would undoubredly have shared but possibly not Chaucer himself, who was for Thomas Usk "the noble, philosophical poete in Englisshe."