Story of Troilus

Informationen zum Autor Robert Kay Gordon was an English scholar of medieval and early modern English literature and administrator at the University of Alberta in Canada. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The only collection in English of the major medieval versions of the story of "Troilus and Criseyde" - from Beno t de Sainte-Maure, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Henryson. Reprinted from the 1964 edition. First published in 1934.

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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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• Autoren: Robert Kay Gordon
• Mitarbeit: R. K. Gordon (Herausgeber), R K Gordon (Übersetzung), R. K. Gordon (Übersetzung), R.K. Gordon (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.12.1978
• EAN: 9780802063687
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-6368-7
• Seiten: 277
• Serien: MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching; Mediaeval Academy Reprints for; MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching; Mediaeval Academy Reprints for; Mart: The Medieval Academy Rep
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft