Download or read book Troilus and Criseyde written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight. This new translation into modern English by a major Chaucerian scholar includes an index of the names relating to the Trojan War and an Index of Proverbs.

Download or read book Troilus and Cressida written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the wealth of formal debate contained in this tragedy, Troilus and Cressida was probably written in 1602 for a performance at one of the Inns of the Court. Shakespeare's treatment of the age-old tale of love and betrayal is based on many sources, from Homer and Ovid to Chaucer andShakespeare's near contemporary Robert Greene. In the introduction the various problems connected with the play, its performance, and publication, are considered succinctly; its multiple sources are discussed in detail, together with its peculiar stage history and its renewed popularity in recentyears.

Download or read book Roman de Troie written by Benoit (de Sainte-Maure.) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chaucer and the Poets written by Winthrop Wetherbee and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sensitive reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer’s poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer’s profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the classical poets, Wetherbee sees the Troilus as much more than a courtly treatment of an event in ancient history—it is, he asserts, a major statement about the poetic tradition from which it emerges. Wetherbee demonstrates the evolution of the poet-narrator of the Troilus, who begins as a poet of romance, bound by the characters’ limited worldview, but who in the end becomes a poet capable of realizing the tragic and ultimately the spiritual implications of his story.

Download or read book Troilus and Criseyde written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the epic backdrop of the battle of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde is an evocative story of love and loss. When Troilus, the son of Priam, falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde, he is able to win her heart with the help of his cunning uncle Pandarus, and the lovers experience a brief period of bliss together. But the pair are soon forced apart by the inexorable tide of war and - despite their oath to remain faithful - Troilus is ultimately betrayed. Regarded by many as the greatest love poem of the Middle Ages, Troilus and Criseyde skilfully combines elements of comedy and tragedy to form an exquisite meditation on the fragility of romantic love, and the fallibility of humanity.

Download or read book The Origin and Development of the Story of Troilus and Criseyde written by K. Young and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Testament of Cresseid written by Robert Henryson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1926, this volume contains the full text of The Testament of Cresseid by Scottish poet Robert Henryson.

Download or read book The Origin and Development of the Story of Troilus and Criseyde written by Karl Young and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Origin and Development of the Story of Troilus and Criseyde written by Karl Young and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chaucer and the French Tradition written by Charles Muscatine and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Origin and Development of the Story of Troilus and Criseyde written by Karl Young and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chaucer and the Subject of History written by Lee Patterson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer's interest in individuality was strikingly modern. He was aware of the pressures on individuality exerted by the past and by society - by history. Chaucer investigated not just the idea of history but the historical world intimately related to his own political and literary career. This book has shaped the way that Chaucer is read.

Download or read book Troilus and Criseyde written by Jenni Nuttall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scene-by-scene reader's guide to Geoffrey Chaucer's Trojan War poem specifically designed for student readers.

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer written by Piero Boitani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.

Download or read book The Song of Troilus written by Thomas C. Stillinger and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1992-11-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Song of Troilus traces the origins of modern authorship in the formal experimentation of medieval writers. Thomas C. Stillinger analyzes a sequence of narrative books that are in some way constructed around lyric poems: Dante's Vita Nuova, Bocaccio's Filostrato, and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. The shared aim of these texts, he argues, is to imagine and achieve an unprecedented auctoritas: a "lyric authority" that combines the expressive subjectivity of courtly love poetry with the impersonal authority of Biblical commentary. Each of the three establishes its own formal and intertextual dynamics; in complex and unexpected ways, the hierarchies of Latin learning are charged with erotic force, allowing the creation of a new vernacular Book of Love. The Song of Troilus is a linked series of incisive close readings. Each chapter defines and investigates a range of philological, intertextual, and theoretical problems; in addition to explicating his three principal texts, Stillinger offers important insights into a range of medieval traditions, from Psalm commentary to Trojan historiography to Ricardian political satire. At the same time, The Song of Troilus is a sophisticated narrative of cultural change and a searching meditation on history, desire, and writing. The Song of Troilus is an original and highly readable study of three major medieval texts; it will be of compelling interest to students and scholars of medieval literature, and to all those exploring the history of authorship and the implications of literary form.

Download or read book Testament of Love written by Thomas Usk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Usk was a figure of political and literary importance who was in the politics of late 14th-century London. A critical edition of his meditation on the fickle nature of worldly fortune and exploration of the relationship between grace and free will.

Download or read book Il Filostrato written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this translated version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato is of particular interest as the principal source for Chaucer's great work, the Troilus. This edition includes the original Italian alongside the translation, so that even the English reader with no knowledge of Italian will be able to make out a good deal of the original assisted by a close translation.