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Suggests that aspects of the ritual of sacramental confession are noticeable in the fabricated version of Troilus's admission of love that Pandarus reports to Criseyde in TC 2.523ff. Also notes other echoes of confession in Books 1 and 2 that…

Examines Troilus's love malady in TC in terms of medieval psychology, arguing that his fixation with Criseyde produces melancholy, a "lack of contact between mind and reality," and a loss of the desire to live. Focuses on Troilus's dream of Criseyde…

Allegorical traditions of the Mars and Venus myth were adopted and elaborated upon in the Middle Ages to demonstrate that "passion for woman encroaches upon the masculine cares of war," as in Troilus's shifts from warrior to lover. In the Epilogue…

Translation of TC in Romanian rhyme royal stanzas, based on the text of Albert C. Baugh (1963), with preface and end-of-text notes and commentary by Duțescu. Includes b&w illustrations from ancient Mediterranean art, medieval manuscripts, and…

Medieval medical writers regarded love-sickness quite seriously as a disease, a form of madness. Chaucer's extensive use of medical terminology in TC renders his treatment of the lover's affliction more clinical, analytical, and critical than is…

Reads "goter, by a pryve wente" (TC 3.787) literally--a passageway that passes a latrine--and comments on the poetic functions of Troilus's approaching Criseyde's bedroom by this means. The passage characterizes Pandarus's house as up-to-date and…

The verb "troiledest" ("deceived"; "Piers Plowman," C, xxi, 321), a "hapax legomenon" introduced in 1393 when TC was at its most popular, may be a reference to the treachery recorded in Chaucer's poem. Langland uses it to refer to Satan's temptation…

In Polish. Title translated into English: "Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare and Chaucer--Metaphorical Language in the Light of Social Change." Shows how socio-economic differences are reflected in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's imgaery and diction.

Translation of TC into Polish. Item not seen; description from WorldCat.

Translation of TC into Hungarian. Item not seen; description from WorldCat.

Translation of TC into Dutch verse, with notes and introduction.

Argues that Troilus "establishes the meaning of the events" in TC by "contemplating and exposing" their inner significance. His thoughts convey the "theme of bondage" through the imagery and language of constraint (prison and confinement, snares and…

Examines TC 4.958-1078, comparing the context of these lines with that of their source in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. The Christian import of the poem's closing lines is implicit in TC 4.

Throughout TC Chaucer uses the social play of "luf-talkying" as a vehicle for irony and as a means of establishing man's inability to attain an ideal. Troilus plays the love game too earnestly and so is both truly comic and, in terms of final…

Questions whether Troilus has gained wisdom by the end of TC and explores what is evident as true wisdom in PF. Although Troilus's laughter indicates his contempt for the world, the hero does not realize fully the hierarchical nature of love that is…

Attributes the metaphors of blindness and light in TC to the direct influence of Statius's "Thebaid" (unmediated by the "Roman de Thébes"), suggesting that the pattern of imagery culminates in Troilus's comparison of himself to Oedipus (TC 4.300).

In TC 3, Chaucer evokes the geography and atmosphere of Dante's "Inferno," while in Pandarus's actions he evokes Virgil's role as guide through hell. These associations provide a context for "judging Troilus's position at the poem's centre" and…

Middle English text and French translation of TC, with introduction and commentary in French. Includes a chronology of Chaucer's life; a bibliography; and indices of names, places, and works.

The influences of Boethius, Dante, and Petrarch ("Canzoniere") on TC are not fully evident to readers unfamiliar with these sources because Chaucer nowhere indicates what he is doing. Such secrecy renders interpretations of his text complex.

Repeated imagery of falconry's mew, derived from typology and folklore, symbolize the poem's vision of mutability in human affairs. Especially as they relate to the character of Troilus, these images represent the Neo-Platonic notion of the soul as…

Praises the art and skill of Chaucer's adaptations of sources and literary conventions in creating TC, comparing and contrasting the plot and characterizations of the work with those of a full range of its "literary progenitors" and exploring…

Windeatt assesses the uncertainties and experiences of love in TC and considers aspects of Chaucer's humanism and experimentalism. Rather than condemning worldly love, TC explores its many variations.

Item not seen, reported in WorldCat which indicates that this German translation of TC is accompanied by notes and an afterword by Walter F. Schirmer.

Adapts TC for the stage in modern prose, with Production Notes, a dramaturgical Introduction, and stage directions in the modern-English text. Michael B. Herzog's "Music Score" (n.p.; at end of text) provides musical scores for four lyrics in the…

Studies the "three narrative parallels" of TC which complement the story and unify the theme: the "cosmic drama, the fall of Troy, and the performance of the narrator."