Abstract
In Guillaume de Machaut’s Remede de fortune, the figure of Hope attempts to adapt the doctrines of Boethius’s De consolatio philosophiae to an amatory context, in order to cure the lover-narrator’s subjection to desire, grant him a degree of self-sufficiency and enable him to love contentedly. However, the contradictions in Hope’s discourse hint at the difficulty of attaining self-sufficiency in an erotic love affair, and as the poem draws to a close it becomes clear that Hope is a fundamentally divided, ambivalent figure. This article intervenes in a complex and long-running scholarly debate over the interpretation of Machaut’s poem.
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