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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.

Adaptation of TC as an opera, with libretto by Christopher Hassell, originally composed in 1954. This revised version was released by EMI on CD (2 discs) in 1995, with a 43 pp. booklet that includes a production history, synopsis, and libretto. Also…

Claims that in reworking TC, Shakespeare "turns it inside out": the work of creating Criseyde's double image shifts from the narrator to Troilus, who also embodies the narrator's "longing and dread of the erotic," and eye-witness testimony fills the…

In Henryson's poem, contrary to traditional interpretation, Troilus is the more limited character and Cresseid the more noble.

Troilus' prayer to Mercury is ill-considered. The god's diffident and finally unsuccessful attempt to bed Herse brings disaster to the go-between Aglauros. Further, the reference to this affair draws a pointed contrast between Pandarus and Herse's…

Japanese translation of TC, based on the Windeatt edition, with commentary.

Analysis of the versions of the Troy story by Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare, with attention to earlier versions and to the impact of the story and its main characters on western culture. Gauges the importance of ancient stories in shaping…

French translation of selections from TC (Book 1: 155-230, 268-322, 400-504; Book 2: 289-490, 596-812; Book 3: 239-343, 694-798, 841-952, 1065-1148, 1184-1211, 1226-53, 1275-1323; Book 4: 1128-1281, 1534-96, 1640-1701; Book 5: 197-266, 295-321,…

An edition of the Welsh verse drama "Troelus a Chresyd" (c. 1600), with introduction and commentary that explore the play's debt to Chaucer's TC and Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid." Includes a table of correspondences (pp.143-61) between the play…

Sets MerB to orchestral music, sung by tenor; text in Middle English. A Special Oder Edition / Study Score was commissioned by the Saltire Music Group, apparently in 2009.