"Troilus and Criseyde": Geoffrey Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Dean, James M., and Harriet Spiegel, eds.

Title
"Troilus and Criseyde": Geoffrey Chaucer.

Published
Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 2016.

Physical Description
lxviii, 391 pp.; b&w illus.

Description
Textbook edition of TC, conservatively edited from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61, with modern punctuation, sidebar glosses and bottom-of-page notes, an index of characters, a glossary of common words and phrases, and a select bibliography. The extensive introduction addresses issues of Chaucer’s life, language, and works; characterization; structure; philosophical and courtly love; genre; sources; versification; reception and influence; and critical history. Three appendices provide source-and-analogue materials from Benoît, Boccaccio, and Henryson; contextualizing selections from Ovid, Boethius, Andreas Capellanus, Jean de Meun, and Petrarch; and materials on medieval science.

Contributor
Spiegel, Harriet, ed.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Chaucer's Life
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations