Leaving the Final Trace: Testamentary Poetics in the "Troilus and Cressida" Story: Chaucer, Henryson, Shakespeare.

Author / Editor
Ruszkiewicz, Dominika.

Title
Leaving the Final Trace: Testamentary Poetics in the "Troilus and Cressida" Story: Chaucer, Henryson, Shakespeare.

Published
Sylwia J. Wojciechowska and Aeddan Shaw, eds. Colossus: How Shakespeare Still Bestrides the Cultural and Literary World (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Ignatianum, 2018), pp. 81-94.

Description
Describes differences in the uses of personal testaments in TC (Troilus's) and in the versions of the story by Henryson (Cresseid's) and Shakespeare, focusing on Pandarus’s testament in "Troilus and Cressida" and on how it reflects the influence of the earlier poets.

Contributor
Wojciechowska, Sylwia J., ed.
Shaw, Aeddan, ed.

Alternative Title
Colossus: How Shakespeare Still Bestrides the Cultural and Literary World

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde