Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' in der Englischen Literatur von Henryson bis Dryden

Description: Schowerling investigates the influence of Chaucer's TC on four writers of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Writers and works discussed include Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," Sidnam's paraphrase of TC, Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" and Dryden's "Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found too Late."; Henryson's work is tragic in tone and imparts a moral. Conversely, Sidnam's paraphrase is best described as a tragicomedy. Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" is the most innovative, while Dryden's heroic tragedy includes a major fall for Hector, Troilus, and Criseyde.