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Reprints twelve examples of critical studies of TC published between 1962 and 2008, several in excerpts. An introduction (pp. 225-27) summarizes the plot of TC and comments on its characters, major themes, and critical reception. Closes with…

Considers the relations both between TC and Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and between TC and Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," examining them, not as sources or descendants, but as psychoanalytic "neighbors," fraught with "unsettling desires."

Examines how records of the Uprising of 1381 reflect contemporary attitudes toward treason, truth, and social fragmentation. This background helps to clarify how TC undermines social idealism through its depictions of civil division and…

An edition of TC, accompanied by Adam, Ven, Ros, Wom Unc, MercB, Wom Nob, and Scog, an Introduction, textual notes, explanatory notes at the bottom of the page, and a brief glossary at the end of the volume. The Introduction (vi-lvi) includes…

Chaucer's rhyming of "sike" with "endite" (TC 2.884 and 2.886) is likely a scribal mistake."Lite" is more consistent with Chaucer's linguistic habits and forms a perfect rhyme. In line 2.936, "yeden" is placed to rhyme with "dede," while an…

Reprint of a Japanese translation of TC with notes and commentary, based on F. N. Robinson's second edition. First published in 1979.

Item not seen. WorldCat entry describes this as a lecture which discusses TC, "comparing it to similar poetry of the period."

A textbook edition of selections from TC in Middle English (some 5000 lines), with an introduction and end-of-text commentary and glossary. Much of Book 4 is excluded (its Prologue of is included), and other passages reduced slightly. The…

Investigates how historical and textual frames produce meaning. The book situates TC in the history of the Troy legend, discusses the importance of the text, reviews historically significant issues in the reception of TC, explains the concept of the…

Introduction to TC designed for students. Provides scene-by-scene themes, key topics, and commentary, with recurrent attention to Chaucer's debt to Boccaccio's "Il filostrato."

Prose translation of TC aimed at the general reader, with introduction (30 pp.), explanatory notes (35 pp.), and indices of proverbs and names. The introduction comments on themes, date, sources, genre, and characterization.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of selections from TC in Middle English.

Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this reading of TC in Middle English features Derek Brewer, Richard Marquand, Peter Orr, Prunella Scales, and Gary Watson.

Verse translation of TC in rhyme royal stanzas, including brief explanatory notes (pp. 311-21), and "Four Brief Appendices" (pp. 325-32) that comment on questions of translation and on early adaptations of the poem. The Introduction (pp. ix-xxvi)…

Reprints Walter W. Skeat's edition of TC, with a new introduction (pp. vii-xv) and brief bibliography (pp. 261-62).

Item not accessed; reported by WorldCat, with link to a commercial description: "A BBC Radio 4 full-cast [modernization] of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde by poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw . . . . The cast includes Tom Ferguson as Troilus, Maxine…

Dramatic recitation of TC, with a cast of eight: Jane Camfield (Antigone and Ladies), Harvey De Roo (Calkas and Troilus), Melanie Yeats (Cassandra, Eleyne, and Ladies), Mary-Ann Stouck (Criseyde), Eric Ball (Deiphebus), Tom Burton (Diomede), Ken…

Book-by-book examination of TC, with consistent concern for the characters (especially Criseyde) and the construction of their subjectivities. Summit explores the poem's ongoing concern with how textuality and literary transmission are deeply related…

An edition of TC, with on-page glosses, explanatory notes at the end of the text, a glossary, and a selected bibliography. Includes a table of correspondences between TC and Boccaccio's "Filostrato," plus a chronology of Chaucer's life and writings.…

German verse translation of TC.

A fully annotated Japanese translation.

An edition with copious marginal glosses and bottom notes, designed especially for first-time readers.

Edition of TC first published by Everyman's library in 1953.

Critical introduction to major issues in the study of TC arranged by topic: date, text, sources, genre, structure, themes, style, imitation, and allusion before 1700. Discursive survey of each topic and subtopic, linked by reference to a…

Reads the narrator of TC as separate from the poet Chaucer and recognizable in two roles that exist in productive tension: an inexperienced servant of love and a fallible recorder of Trojan history.