Trojan Wars: Genre and the Politics of Authorship in Late Medieval and Early Modern England.
- Author / Editor
- Arner, Timothy D.
Trojan Wars: Genre and the Politics of Authorship in Late Medieval and Early Modern England.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. Pennsylvania State University, 2007. Fully accessible via https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/7586 (accessed April 6, 2023).
- Physical Description
- ix, 223 pp.
- Description
- Explores "the historiographic importance of Troy . . . in the formation of an English literary tradition as defined by the idea of authorship and negotiated through genre . . . . particularly epic, romance and history." Studies the sources and intertextualities of TC, Lydgate's "Troy Book," Caxton's "Recuyell of the Histories of Troye" and "Eneydos," and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," to show how "authorial identity is expressed textually" in each of them "through the negotiation of genre and competing narrative forms," along with issues of national identity and political interest.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion