Troilus and Criseyde - "The Book of Troilus" by Geoffrey Chaucer

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.

List of contents

1. The "Troilus" as translation  2. The scribal medium  3. The text of the "Troilus"  4. Metre  5. This edition  6. List of manuscripts  7. "Troilus and Criseyde": Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; BookV.

About the author

Geoffrey Chaucer (Author) , B.A. Windeatt (Author)

Summary

This edition is in paperback for the first time. It has been revised and corrected since the first edition in order to make the text fully accessible to a wider market of individual students. As before, the text is based on surviving manuscripts and has a full textual apparatus and commentary.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Chaucer, B a Windeatt, B. A. Windeatt
• Publisher: Routledge
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.1990
• EAN: 9780582031975
• ISBN: 978-0-582-03197-5
• No. of pages: 600
• Dimensions: 189 mm x 246 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 1144 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies