Chaucer's Troylus and Cryseyde (from the Harl. ms. 3943) compared with Boccaccio's Filostrato
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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A 1932 translation into modern English of a text written by Chaucer in c.1385, the story being set in Classical Antiquity around 800 B.C. and being a love story concerning its two principal characters, the Trojan soldier Troilus and his Greek paramour, Cressida, set during the ten years of the Trojan War between Greece and the city state of Troy. The story is based on Classical sources, principally Homer's verses describing the Fall of Troy, and tells of the love between a hero of Troy and a Greek lady, at a time when they belonged to opposite sides in that war, a love beset by the difficulties which the conflict caused them.
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Cressida (Fictitious character), Facsimiles, Fiction, Greek Mythology, Greeks, Manuscripts, Manuscripts, English (Middle), Medieval Manuscripts, Modern Civilization, Narrative poetry, English (Middle), Poetry, Troilus (Legendary character), Trojan War, Welsh Manuscripts, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, open_syllabus_project, Trojan War. fast (OCoLC)fst01157294, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, troilus and cressida, Troilus (legendary character), poetry, Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, Troilus (Legendary character) in literature, Literature and the war, Troïlos (Personnage légendaire), Poésie, Troïlos (Personnage légendaire) dans la littérature, Cressida (Personnage fictif), Guerre de Troie, Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey), English Manuscripts, Princes, Women, Epic poetry, English (Middle)Places
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The Trojan War, c.800 B.C.Showing 11 featured editions. View all 97 editions?
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Troilus and Cressida
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A seventeenth-century modernisation of the first three books of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
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Troilus and Cressida and The Canterbury tales.: With modern English versions of both works.
1955, Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Chaucer's Troylus and Cryseyde (from the Harl. ms. 3943) compared with Boccaccio's Filostrato
1873, Pub. for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner & Co.
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Edition Notes
Issued in 2 parts, 1875-83.
On verso of t.-p.: Second series, 9. [!] Perhaps the t.-p. is a preliminary one, later discarded.
The translation of Boccaccio and Chaucer's text are printed in parallel columns. "Those lines ... that Chaucer translated or adapted are englisht here: those which Chaucer did not use ... are only summarized.
"Something less than a third of the Troylus is taken direct from the Filostrato."--Pref. p. iii.
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