Translating 'Troilus and Criseyde': Modernizing the Courtly Idiom
- Author / Editor
- Windeatt, Barry.
Translating 'Troilus and Criseyde': Modernizing the Courtly Idiom
- Published
- Anglistik 21.1 (2010): 37-48.
- Description
- Comments on translations/modernizations of TC from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Considers modern problems with reproducing the nuances of Chaucer's courtly idiolect, particularly "courtly value words" such as "goodly," "fresshe," "wommanly," and "manly" and the "toal modulations" of, for example, "game" and "cheere" or manere."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
- Language and Word Studies
- Troilus and Criseyde