Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140424210 ISBN 13: 9780140424218

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2003

Synopsis

Chaucer's longest complete poem is the supreme evocation of doomed courtly love in medieval English literature.

Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the poem relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover, only to be betrayed when she is handed over to the Greek camp and yields to Diomede.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in London to a wine merchant, Geoffrey Chaucer (c1340-1400) became a royal servant and travelled as a diplomat to France, Spain and Italy. As well as being famed for his translations, his own work includes The Canterbury Tales, The Book of the Duchess and The Legend of Good Women.
Professor Barry Windeatt is Fellow and Keeper of Rare Books at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He has translated The Book of Margery Kempe for Longman and is the author of the Oxford Guide to Troilus & Criseyde.

Synopsis:

This middle-English edition of Chaucer's great poem also includes notes, text summary, selected criticism, chronology of Chaucer's life and times and an on-page glossary. The editor presents Chaucer scholarship in an introduction, discussing the traditions and sources of the story, the themes of manhood and womanhood, and the role of fate in the lovers' tragedy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0140424210
• ISBN 13: 9780140424218
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640