num_pages: 640
description: Chaucer's longest complete poem is the supreme evocation of doomed courtly love in medieval English literature. Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the poem relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover, only to be betrayed when she is handed over to the Greek camp and yields to Diomede.
language: English, Middle (1100-1500)
title: Troilus and Criseyde
titlecomplete: Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics)
characters: Criseyde, Troilus
genres: Literature, British Literature, Classics, Geoffrey Chaucer, Medieval, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Read For School, Romance
ratings_count: 6645
places: Troy
publisher: Penguin Classics