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The Complete Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer Volume II - Boethus, Troilus
The Complete Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer Volume II - Boethus Troilus Author:Geoffrey Chaucer Is my introductory remarks to the Legend of Good Women, I refer to the close connection that is easily seen to subsist between Chaucers translation of Boethius and his Troilus and Criseydc. All critics seem now to agree in placing these two works in close conjunction, and in making the prose work somewhat the entire of the two though it is not a... more »t all unlikely that, for a short time, both works were in hand together. It is also clear that they were completed before the author commenced the House of Fame, the date of which is, almost certainly, about 1383-4. Dr. Ruch, in his Essay on the Chronology of Chnucers Writings, proposes to date Hnelhius ahout 1377-8, and Troilus about 1380-1. It is sufiicicut to be able to infer, as we can with tolerable certaint that these two works belong to the period between 1377 and 1382. And we may also feel sure that the well-known lines to Adam.....« less