中世英文学の女性像(2) : チョーサアの女性達

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The literary career of Geoffrey Chaucer falls into three periods:(i) Until 1372, when he was imitating French models;(ii) 1373-87, when he shows the influence of Dante and Boccaccio;(iii) 1388-99, his most original period. Chaucer is regarded as one of the greatest authors who wrote their works in perfect Middle English which was differentiated from Old English (Anglo-Saxon) through the Norman Conquest. But what is more significant about Chaucer is that he came into direct contact with the fresh atmosphere of Italian Renaissance both as a diplomat and a man of letters. Troilus and Criseyde is one of the supreme achievements of the second period in his literary career, consisting of 1176 stanzas (that is, 8239 lines) in five books. Although it is generally believed that in writing this long poem of courtly love he was largely indebted to Il Filostrato by Boccaccio and also to Boethius's De Consolations Philosophiae, it is here in the historical story of Trojan War that Chaucer created much more personal and familiar characters than ever before, such as Pandarus and Criseyde. Now in this small paper we are going to focus on Criseyde as a main character who seems to us one of the typically Chaucerian women, and who will give us a touch of the portrait of those appearing in the coming Age of English Renaissance as well.
東京家政学院大学の論文
1978-05-01