Troilus and Criseyde in Modern Verse

· Hackett Publishing
Ebook
296
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About this ebook

This fast-moving Modern English version of Chaucer's greatest tragic romance highlights the poem's rapid shifts in register and diction as well as its subtle and elusive characterizations, while preserving the enchanting rhyme-royal stanza of the Middle English original. Christine Chism's Introduction illuminates the work's historical context, poetic devices, first audiences, sources, and non-traditional re-conception of a traditional female protagonist "whose faults," as Criseyde says, "are rolled on every tongue."

About the author

Joseph Glaser is Professor Emeritus of English, Western Kentucky University. His Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse and Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse are also published by Hackett.

Christine Chism is Associate Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles.

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