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Informationen zum Autor Andrew James Johnston is Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin Russell West-Pavlov is Chair of English – Anglophone Literatures and Cultures – at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tuebingen Klappentext This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Zusammenfassung This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction - Andrew James Johnston, Elisabeth Kempf and Russell West-Pavlov2. 'No matter from the heut': passion, value and contingency in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde - John Drakakis3. Narrators, selves and the discourse of love in Troilus and Cressida, or Chaucer, Brecht and Shakespeare - Ute Berns 4. Changing emotions in Troilus: the crucial year - David Wallace5. 'Expectation whirls me round': hope, fear and time in Troilus and Cressida - Kai Wiegandt6. ' Like an Olympian wrestling: the pause in Troilus and Cressida - Richard Wilson7. 'What's Hecuba to him?' Absent women and the space of lamentation in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - Hester Lees-Jeffries 8. Framing emotions in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde - Elisabeth Kempf9. Value feelings - the economy and axiology of the passions in Troilus and Cressida - Kathrin Bethke10. The space of desire in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Troy - Paul Strohm 11. Arrogant authorial performances: from Chaucer's Criseyde to Shakespeare's Cressida - Wolfram R. Keller 12. Faces that talk: Chaucer, nature and female beauty - Stephanie Trigg 13. 'Potent raisings': performing passion in Chaucer and Shakespeare. - Andreas Mahler 14. 'The formless ruin of oblivion': Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and literary defacement - James Simpson 15. 'Stewed phrase' and aesthetic effect in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: received wisdom and its functions in the reflection, management and performance of passion - Verena Olejniczak Lobsien Index...
