Troilus and Criseyde in Modern Verse
By: Geoffrey Chaucer ; translated, with notes, by Joseph Glaser ; introduction by Christine Chism
Contributors: Glaser, Joseph, 1942- translator
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781624661938; 9781624661945
Subjects: Troilus (Legendary character); Poetry; Cressida (Fictitious character); Trojan War
Description: This fast-moving Modern English version of Chaucer's greatest tragic romance highlights the poem's rapid shifts in register and diction as well as its subtle and elusive characterizations, while preserving the enchanting rhyme-royal stanza of the Middle English original. Christine Chism's Introduction illuminates the work's historical context, poetic devices, first audiences, sources and non-traditional re-conception of a traditional female protagonist "whose faults", as Criseyde says, "are rolled on every tongue."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.