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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article examines Chaucer's response to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy in Troilus and Criseyde. I argue that Chaucer responds to a tension that he perceives in Boethius's Consolation regarding the...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 65, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDESPITE their different paths to falling in love, once they have arrived at love's door Troilus and Criseyde exhibit some of the same behaviors, including, as the epigraphs above show, a tendency to swoon in stressful...
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The connection between Henryson's Testament of Cresseid and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde is made evident from the outset of Henryson's poem. It is not, however, the only work of Chaucer's that infuses the...
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From:The Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History (Vol. 15) Peer-ReviewedIn Chaucer's version of the story of Troilus and Criseyde, epistles fuel and document every stage of the lovers' affair; indeed, as Sarah Stanbury remarks, the poem is "so full of letters we might almost call it an...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Troilus and Criseyde represents Geoffrey Chaucer's principal contribution to the romance and, along with The Canterbury Tales, his major achievement. More than a love story, the work exhibits a medley of late medieval...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)The appreciation of Geoffrey Chaucer has suffered a good deal in the past from his reputation as the ``Father of English poetry.'' It has been easy to think of him as a ``naif,'' the possessor of a charming simplicity of...
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 82, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEven before Diomedes arrives in the Greek camp with Criseyde, for whom the Trojans have exchanged the seemingly more valuable Antenor, the bold Greek hero positions himself as an inevitability. One of the requests he...
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From:Medium Aevum (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
Chaucer's second Hector: the triumphs of Diomede and the possibility of epic in Troilus and Criseyde
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGeoffrey Chaucer's tragic poem 'Troilus and Criseyde' narrates the defection of the Trojan seer Calchas to the Greeks during the Trojan war. The origin of Calchas' defection is interesting because in classical literature...
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 80, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Is Pandarus queer? From the outset of this essay, I freely admit that I have no absolutely conclusive evidence to support an argument that he is queer, if by "queer" one means "homosexual." (1) In this...
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From:Tamkang Review (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe aim of this paper is to analyze the role of Troy in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. The paper is broadly divided into two parts. From historical and psychological perspectives, the first part addresses the...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 60, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe present article demonstrates how Pandarus and Troilus's relationship in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde is a medieval representation of a bromance wherein an incestuous act between Pandarus and Criseyde is among the...
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From:British Writers, Retrospective Supplement 2N. S. Thompson Introduction IF JOHN DRYDEN in 1700 was able to propose Geoffrey Chaucer as the “Father of English Poetry,” earlier generations had not only been copious with praise, but also had been quite specific...