...Holly A. Crocker This article argues that Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida continues an important late medieval poetic tradition that highlights the troubling consequences of virtue’s performativity for idealized women. If Chaucer is pessimistic about the potential for Criseyde’s ethical agency...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith “Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye.” So wrote Chaucer at the end of Troilus and Criseyde . But how compatible are the forms and ideas of tragedy with Christian tradition, its theology and liturgy? What are the relations between medieval and early modern discourses...

... In each eye one. Swear by your double self, And there’s an oath of credit. (5.1.243  –  46) Indeed, the multiplication of oaths signals not a strengthening of the origi- nal pledge, but rather its weakening — it becomes “truth tired with itera- tion” (Troilus and Cressida 3.2.172), as Troilus...

...: Fortunes of a Genre, Medieval and Early Modern Edited by David Aers and Sarah Beckwith Volume 49 / Number 1 / January 2019 “Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye.” So wrote Chaucer at the end of Troilus and Criseyde. But how compatible are the forms and ideas of tragedy with Christian tradition...

... (“General Prologue,” 1 – 18), linking physical sickness, spiritual suffering, seasonal change, and the liturgical year; poems about love, such as the Book of the Duchess or Troilus and Criseyde, are dominated by the language of illness (love-­sickness) and cure, with the Lady as physician.43 Chaucer...

... Tragedy: Fortunes of a Genre, Medieval and Early Modern Edited by David Aers and Sarah Beckwith Volume 49 / Number 1 / January 2019 “Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye.” So wrote Chaucer at the end of Troilus and Criseyde. But how compatible are the forms and ideas of tragedy with Christian...

... in the “Canterbury Tales” and “Troilus and Criseyde,” ed. Peter G. Beidler (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1998), 23–36. 5 See Elizabeth Scala, Desire in the “Canterbury Tales” (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015), 56. 6 While it is certainly possible to understand the poles...

... socially accessible form in Shakespeare’s plays through the common pun on “hairs” and “heirs.” In Troilus and Cressida, Pandarus describes how Helen had spied a white hair on Triolus’ chin and said: “Here’s but two and fifty hairs on your chin — and one of them is white...

...) that also sustain the ultimate ineffability of suffering. Through these formal features, the poem portrays creation as having agency: the nonhuman world sees, feels, and acts—acts of recognition that result in catastrophe. Patricia Clare Ingham writes of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde that the kind...

... (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979). For an earlier analysis of the relation of uncertainty to rage, see Laura Levine, “ Troilus and Cressida and the Politics of Rage,” in Men in Women's Clothing , 26–43; and Levine, “This Is, and Is Not, Knowledge: Cressida and the Titillation of Male...

... players” (1 Henry IV 2.4.393), “merely players” (As You Like It 2.7.140), “a strutting player” (Troilus 1.3.153), “a poor player” (Macbeth 5.4.24).5 Plays in which both terms occur are interestingly concentrated in the middle of Shakespeare’s career (As You Like It, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida...

... Lydgate refers the readers of his Troy Book to Chaucer if they wish to delve further into the story of Troilus and Criseyde, there is no question that Chaucer is the one and only voice in all of his texts: “Chaucer can tell you the whole story” [Þe hool(e) story Chaucer kan ȝow telle]. 22 Here...

... body that intercession makes. This sexual dimension of intercession is presented in a number of Shakespeare’s other plays, including Much Ado about Nothing, Troilus and Cressida, The Winter’s Tale, but especially Othello, the play whose creation is likely to have directly preceded...

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... and Cervantes were universal literary geniuses who just happened to share the same time period. The humor involved in the Spanish narra- tive is simply on too satirical a level for the British genius: that was not the style of Shakespeare, except somewhat in a ‘problem play’ like Troilus...

..., 2008. x, 198 pp. $95.00. 218  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 39.1 / 2009 Condren, Edward I. Chaucer from Prentice to Poet: The Metaphor of Love in Dream Visions and “Troilus and Criseyde.” xiv, 239 pp.; 8 figs., 4 tables. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. $59.95...