Eros and Thanatos: Cressida, Troilus, and the Modern Age

Author / Editor
Boitani, Piero.

Title
Eros and Thanatos: Cressida, Troilus, and the Modern Age

Published
Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 281-305.

Description
Summarizes the treatment and evolution of the Troilus myth from antiquity to the modern age, focusing on plot, the ending, and themes of love and death.

Alternative Title
The European Tragedy of Troilus.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.