Troilus and Criseyde

Geoffrey Chaucer (Autor)

James Dean, Harriet Spiegel (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

464 Seiten

2016
Broadview Press Ltd (Verlag)
9781554810055 (ISBN)

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Geoffrey Chaucer’s most significant literary accomplishment may well be Troilus and Criseyde, a single, profoundly philosophical narrative of a tragic love affair. In this edition, the manuscript text is preserved as much as possible and the original Middle English text is used. Difficult words are glossed in the margins, and explanatory footnotes help with references and allusions.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s most significant literary accomplishment may well be Troilus and Criseyde, a single, profoundly philosophical narrative of a tragic love affair. Set in ancient Troy and telling the story of the rise and fall, in love and war, of the prince Troilus, Troilus and Criseyde is an archetypal medieval romance. The widowed Criseyde is a powerful woman, complex and intelligent, and the naïve Troilus is ambushed by his overwhelming love for her; Pandarus, Troilus’s friend and the enabler of the couple’s love, provides comic relief. Chaucer used his familiarity with the works of Giovanni Boccaccio and Benoît de Sainte-Maure to build his own historical world, depicting pagan beliefs and myths with sympathy and imagination.

This edition is based on the Corpus Christi College Cambridge manuscript of Troilus and Criseyde; as with Robert Boenig and Andrew Taylor’s Broadview Edition of The Canterbury Tales, the manuscript text is preserved as much as possible and the original Middle English text is used. Difficult words are conveniently glossed in the margins, and explanatory footnotes help with references and allusions.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 1400) was an English poet, translator, bureaucrat, and diplomat. James Dean is Professor of English at the University of Delaware, USA. Harriet Spiegel is Professor Emerita of English at California State University, Chico, USA.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Geoffrey Chaucer: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Troilus and Criseyde

Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V

Glossarial Index of Characters in Troilus and Criseyde
Glossary

Appendix A: The Story of Troilus and Criseyde

From Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Le Roman de Troie (1160)
From Giovanni Boccaccio, Il Filostrato (1335–40)
Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid (1532)

Appendix B: Other Influential Literature

From Ovid, Metamorphoses (7 CE)
From Ovid, Ars Amatoria (3 BCE)
From Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (524 CE)
From Andreas Capellanus, On Love (1185–90)
From Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose (c. 1275)
Francis Petrarch, Sonnet 132 (c. 1370)

Appendix C: Medieval Science

From Constantine the African, Viaticum (c. 1060)
From Gerard of Berry, Glosses on the Viaticum (late 12th century CE)
From Bona Fortuna, Treatise on the Viaticum (early 14th century CE)
From Macrobius, On Dreams (c. 400)
The Ptolemaic Universe (c. 1539)

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Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2016
Zusatzinfo	5 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781554810055 / 9781554810055
Zustand	Neuware