Troilo e Criseida nella Letteratura Occidentale

Author / Editor
Lombardi, Chiara.

Title
Troilo e Criseida nella Letteratura Occidentale

Published
Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2005.

Physical Description
xiii, 330 pp.; 11 b&w illus.

Series
Temi e Testi, no. 62.

Description
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 attitudes towards love, war, heroism, and the transmission of culture.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion