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…
De Roo, Harvey, dir.
Provo, Ut. : Chaucer Studio,1999 and 2005. Also available as a Download.
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…
Summit, Jennifer.
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 213-42.
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.…
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…
Peed, Michael R.
American Notes and Queries 12.9-10 (1974): 143-46
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…
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…
Lombardi, Chiara.
Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2005.
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…
Simon, Jean Robert, trans.
Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1970.
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,…
Davies, W. Beynon, ed.
Cardiff: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1976.
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…
Musgrave, Thea, composer.
London: J. & W. Chester, 1960.
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.
Offers evidence for the source for the opening of the ShT, connecting it with Gilbertus Minorita's "Dictinctiones" and its quotation of then-contemporary vernacular poetry.
Walts, Dawn Simmons.
Chaucer Review 43 (2009): 400-413.
In MilT, Nicholas's real and reputed knowledge of astrology convinces John of the upcoming Flood, evidence that the clerk has spent his time well in learning the science of reckoning time. Indeed, in contrast to the carpenter, the educated clerk has…
Fifteen essays on topics related to sacred and secular English manuscripts of the late Middle Ages. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott under Alternative Title.
Sturm-Maddox, Sara.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 119-34.
Argues for the "strong intertextual presence" of Machaut's "Remede de Fortune" in BD, reflective of developments in late medieval francophone and anglophone social history. Both poems combine praise for an idealized lady with an account of the…
Julius, Anthony.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Julius defines anti-Semitism and describes its history and politics in England. Literary anti-Semitism has "distinct tropes and themes, deployed without respect for genre boundaries." The "master trope" of "a well intentioned Christian place in peril…
