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The Story of Troilus: 2 (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching) - Softcover

R.K. Gordon

 
9780802063687: The Story of Troilus: 2 (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching)

Synopsis

Originally published by J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1934.

In this volume Gordon presents the four great medieval versions of the love of Troilus and Criseida: Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, written in approximately 1160 and the earliest surviving version of the story; Giovanni Boccaccio's It Filostrato (c 1338), which drew on Benoît's tale for one of its two main sources; Georffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde c 1385), for centuries considered his best work; and Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid (c 1490), which functions as a continuation of the story Chaucer tells.

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About the Author

Robert Kay Gordon was an English scholar of medieval and early modern English literature and administrator at the University of Alberta in Canada.

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