"The Formless Ruin of Oblivion": Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" and Literary Defacement.
- Author / Editor
- Simpson, James.
"The Formless Ruin of Oblivion": Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" and Literary Defacement.
- Published
- Andrew James Johnston, Russell West-Pavlov, and Elisabeth Kempf, eds. Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Troilus and Cressida" (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 189-206.
- Description
- Treats the literary tradition of Troy as a war in which different versions of the story struggle to claim validity. Focuses on how Shakespeare seeks to "deface and disable the entire tradition," rendering it "unfit for any but the lowest human habitation" by adapting elements that derive from the "ephemera" of Dares and Dictys and by "breaking down the protected spaces" of TC.
- Alternative Title
- Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde