Troilus and Criseyde: "The Book of Troilus" by Geoffrey Chaucer (New Edition of the Book of Troilus) - Softcover

B.A. Windeatt; Geoffrey Chaucer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582031974 ISBN 13: 9780582031975

Publisher: Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

This new paperback edition provides, as before a text based on all the surviving manuscripts, together with textual apparatus and commentary. The poem is also presented in parallel with its principal source, Boccaccio's "Filostrato", enabling the reader to compare the two poems in charting the evolution and achievement of Chaucer's "Troilus". This edition has been revised and corrected in order to make the text fully accessible to the reader unfamiliar with Chaucer's work. An introduction discusses the text, metre and sources of "Troilus" and assesses the literary importance of Chaucer's translation method.

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Product Description:

This edition presents all of the surviving manuscripts, together with textual apparatus and commentary. The poem is also presented in parallel with its principal source, Boccaccio's "Filostrato", enabling the reader to compare the two poems in charting the evolution and achievement of Chaucer's "Troilus". This edition has been revised and corrected in order to make the text fully accessible to the reader unfamiliar with Chaucer's work. An introduction discusses the text, metre and sources of "Troilus" and assesses the literary importance of Chaucer's translation method.

Review:

"This, then, is a monumental edition xxx; enormously to be admired."

Times Higher Education Supplement

"xxx; a truly major achievement, and a milestone in Chaucer studies."

English Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0582031974
• ISBN 13: 9780582031975
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 600