Authors:Geoffrey Chaucer,  Barry Windeatt,
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: old, english, classics, penguin, criseyde, troilus
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2004-04-27
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140424210
ISBN-13: 9780140424218

The tragedy of Troilus and Criseyde is one of the greatest narrative poems in English literature. Set during the siege of Troy, it tells how the young knight Troilus, son of King Priam, falls in love with Criseyde, a beautiful widow. Brought together by Criseyde?s uncle, Pandarus, the lovers are then forced apart by the events of war, which test their oaths of fidelity and trust to the limits. Described by editor Barry Windeatt as Chaucer?s "most ambitious single achievement, his masterpiece," Troilus and Criseyde is the first work in English to depict human passion with such sympathy and unde

Authors:William Shakespeare,  Stephen Orgel,
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: shakespeare, pelican, cressida, troilus
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $7.00
ISBN-10: 0140714863
ISBN-13: 9780140714869

With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century. Each volume features: ? Authoritative, reliable texts? High quality introductions and notes? New, more readable trade trim size? An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare’s life and the selection of textsBook DescriptionJohn Dover Wilson’s New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shak

Authors:William Shakespeare,  Anthony B. Dawso,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: shakespeare, cambridge, new, cressida, troilus
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-10-16
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 052137619X
ISBN-13: 9780521376198

Largely neglected during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Troilus and Cressida has recently been proven popular on the stage as well as in studies. In this edition, Dawson views the play from a performance perspective--through commentary as well as in a detailed section on stage history featured in the introduction. His textual choices are often surprising but based on thoughtful analysis.Book DescriptionTroilus and Cressida, long considered one of Shakespeare’s most problematic plays, is both difficult and fascinating. Largely neglected during the eighteenth and nineteenth centu

Authors:William Shakespeare,  David Bevingto,
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Keywords: third, series, shakespeare, arden, cressida, troilus
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1998-06-25
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 1903436699
ISBN-13: 9781903436691

This volume offers the most comprehensive and critically up-to-date edition of Troilus and Cressida available today. Bevington?s learned and engaging introduction discusses the ambivalent status and genre of the play, variously presented in its early printing as a comedy, a history and a tragedy. He examines and assimilates the wide variety of critical responses the play has elicited, and argues its importance in today?s culture as an experimental and open-ended work. He also, however, suggests that this experimentalism may have contributed to its lack of immediate stage success, and goes on t

Author: Jenni Nuttall
Publisher: Cambridge
Keywords: criseyde, troilus
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2012-06-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0521138760
ISBN-13: 9780521138765

’Troilus and Criseyde’, Geoffrey Chaucer’s most substantial completed work, is a long historical romance; its famous tale of love and betrayal in the Trojan War later inspired William Shakespeare. This reader’s guide, written specifically for students of medieval literature, provides a scene-by-scene paraphrase and commentary on the whole text. Each section explains matters of meaning, interpretation, plot structure and character development, the role of the first-person narrating voice, Chaucer’s use of his source materials and elements of the poem’s style.

Authors:John Dryden, Maximillian E. Novak, George R. Guffe
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: john, dryden, vol, works, cressida, love, oedipus, troilus, plays
Number of Pages: 651
Published: 1985-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0520051246
ISBN-13: 9780520051249