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This book, the first to be devoted to the story of Troilus and Cressida as it develops through the ages and in various literatures, is the joint effort of an international team of scholars. It studies a myth which represents an important aspect of the European imagination: the way in which the problems of love and death are faced in narrative, poetry, drama, and opera. From the Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans the story passes into the hands of artists such as Benoit de Sainte Maure, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Henryson, Shakespeare, and Dryden, and is finally resurrected in the twentieth century in America, England, and Germany. This book analyses the changes - both literary and more broadly imaginative - that minor and major writers have introduced, and thus constitutes the product of a truly intertextual and comparative approach. While devoting attention to all these authors and their works, the volume concentrates on the treatment of the theme in Chaucer and Shakespeare and is therefore aimed at students of English and Comparative Literature as well as those general readers who are interested in the history of European culture.
Contributors:Piero Boitani, University of Rome, Malcolm Andrew, Queen's University, Belfast, C. David Benson, University of Connecticut, Jill Mann, University of Cambridge, Karl Reichl, University of Bonn, Anna Torti, University of Verona, Barry Windeatt, University of Cambridge, Sergio Rufini, University of Perugia, Giulia Natali, University of Rome, Agostino Lombardo, University of Rome, Roberto Antonelli, University of Rome, Derek Brewer, University of Cambridge
Contents
Antiquity and beyond - the death of Troilus, Piero Boitani; the birth of Criseyde - an exemplary triangle - "classical" Troilus and the question of love at the Anglo-Norman Court, Roberto Antonelli; a lyrical version - Boccaccio's "Filostrato", Giulia Natali; the fall of Troy in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Troilus and Criseyde", Malcolm Andrew; comedy and tragedy in "Troilus and Criseyde", Derek Brewer; classical and medieval elements in Chaucer's "Troilus", Barry Windeatt; Chaucer's "Troilus" - philosophy and language, Karl Reichl; true Troilus and false Cresseid - the descent from tragedy, David Benson; from history to tragedy - the story of Troilus and Criseyde in Lydgate's "Troy Book" and Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid", Anna Torti; fragments and scraps - Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida", Agostino Lombardo; Shakespeare and Chaucer - what is Criseyde worth?, Jill Mann; to make that maxim good - Dryden's Shakespeare, Sergio Rufini; Eros and Thanatos - Cressida, Troilus and the modern age, Piero Boitani.
