The neighboring text : Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson /

The neighboring text : Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson /

Edmondson analyzes the different ways that three canonical texts---Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; its source, Boccaccio's Il Filostrato; and its fifteenth-century Scottish derivative, Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid---treat two figures, Troilus and Criseyde, and how those dif...

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Main Author: Edmondson, George, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2011.
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Troilus and Criseyde.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375. > Filostrato.
Henryson, Robert, > 1430?-1506? > Testament of Cresseid.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Transmission of texts > England > History > To 1500.
Historiography > Great Britain > History > To 1500.
Troilus (Legendary character) in literature.
Trojan War > Literature and the war.
Cressida (Fictitious character)

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