An Investigation of Chaucer's Use of Sentence in the Trollus and Criseyde

Author

• Richard A. Wells, Oberlin College

Degree Year

1945

Document Type

Thesis - Open Access

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

Keywords

Chaucer

Abstract

The purpose of this investigation as it was originally outlined was to discover, by an examination of the sententiae in Chaucer's Trollus and Cryseyde, how Chaucer used sententiae in that work. Except that there was some hope of discovering to what degree Chaucer had freed himself from the influence of the rhetoricians in his use of sententiae at the time when he wrote Trollus and Cryseyde, an influence which Manly says was strong in his earlier works, no particular limit or direction was given to the investigation.

Repository Citation

Wells, Richard A., "An Investigation of Chaucer's Use of Sentence in the Trollus and Criseyde" (1945). Honors Papers. 965.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/965