...C. David Benson Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 CRITIC AND POET: WHAT LYDGATE AND HENRYSON DID TO CHAUCER’S TROILUS RND CRISEYDE By C. DAVID BENSON Although Chaucer’s Troilus and Cristyde is cited...

...Joseph E. Gallagher Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 CRISEYDE’S DREAM OF THE EAGLE LOVE AND WAR IN TROILUS AND CRISEYDE By JOSEPH E. GALLAGHER Although Criseyde’s dream of the eagle is surely among the most pro...

... and Criseyde.” By WINTHROPWETH- ERBEE.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984. 249 pp. $22.50. This book takes a distinguished place in the controversy over Chaucer’s reading of the classics and, more generally, over the nature of classical influence in later medieval poetry...

...Murray F. Markland Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 TROILUS AND CRISEYDE THE INVIOLABILITY OF THE ENDING By MURRAYF. MARKLAND Among Chaucer’s finished narrative works, Troilus and Criseyde is unique...

...John F. Adams Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 IRONY IN TROILUS’ APOSTROPHE TO THE VACANT HOUSE OF CRISEYDE By JOHN F. ADAMS Puns and wordplays, particularly in Chaucer, are frequently difficult to pin down and consequently...

...Joseph A. Longo Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 THE DOUBLE TIME SCHEME IN BOOK I1 OF CHAUCER’S TROILUS AND CRISEYDE By JOSEPH A. LONGO One of the most puzzling aspects of Book I1 of Troilus and Criseyde is Chaucer’s...

...Sister Mary Charlotte Borthwick, F.C.S.P. Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 ANTIGONE’S SONG AS “MIROUR” IN CHAUCER’S TROILUS AND CRISEYDE By SISTERMARY CHARLOTTE BORTHWICK, F.C.S.P. “Mirour of good1ihed”-thus is designated the lover...

...Constance Saintonge © 1954 University of Washington 1954 IN DEFENSE OF CRISEYDE By CONSTANCESAINTONGE After Chaucer has told of Criseyde’s capitulation to Troilus and the joys of love, he makes, in the form of exhortation, a significant...

..., 1959), p. 9. 115 I16 TROILUS AND CRISEYDE to bring Troilus and Criseyde together. Like the narrator of the poem, he suspends himself, usually with comic self-consciousness, between the real...

...John P. McCall Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 FIVE-BOOK STRUCTURE IN CHAUCERS TROILUS By JOHN P. MCCALL No detailed explanation has ever been offered for Chaucer’s five- book arrangement in Troilus and Criseyde. It has been suggested...

...-43 ; cf. Troilus and Criseyde, 111, 1744-71. 4 E.g., Endymion, 11, 716-32. 6 Cf., for example, Endymion, 11, 317 ff. and Troilus and Criseyde, V, 45-49, 541-44: Endymion, IV, 484-95 and Troilus and Criseyde, IV, 1695-97. 439 440 Keats...

...Edmund Reiss Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 TROILUS AND THE FAILURE OF UNDERSTANDING By EDMUNDREISS At the end of Troilus and Criseyde, when Troilus, having ascended to the heavens, looks down at “This litel spot of erthe...

...- sion of this problem. I Four characters who appear in the Troilus and Criseyde reappear in The Testament of Cresseid : Diomede, Troilus, Calchas, and Cres- seid.’ There is no characterization of Diomede in The Testament of Cresseid beyond...

... as comedy in the one case and as tragedy in the other. The next two chapters deal with various aspects of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida and Chaucer’s Troylus and Criseyde. In chapter 4 Donaldson reevaluates the heroines of the two pieces. He argues that Shakespeare had read Chaucer’s poem...

... to gender” (p. 15). Earlier versions of much of this material have appeared elsewhere, but the weaving together of the revised pieces into a sustained argument about Chaucer’s gendered language constitutes an effective whole. In her discussions of Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women...

... of this twentieth century. , . .” The various chapters are devoted to such topics as Chaucer and the Critics; the Development of Chaucer’s Art ; Chaucer’s Borrowings ; Troilus and Criseyde; the Legend of Good Women; Chaucer, the Classics, and the Renais- sance ; the Canterbury Tales. The first...

... and Criseyde : And red wher-so thou be, or elles songe That thou be understonde I god beseche! One doubts that prayer has been heeded when he reads (p. 91) Coghill’s remark that Chaucer neglected character development for his heroines, Criseyde alone excepted...

... of Chaucer’s use of courtly love in the characterization of Pandarus, Criseyde, Diomede, and Troilus. In his discussions, he presents fully the opinions of modern scholars and shows conclusively that Chaucer, using Boc- caccio’s story, altered and increased the courtly love elements and made...

.... Such, then, is the permissive nature of the conflict between Boethius and Lady Philosophy in the realm of philo- sophical discussion; between Palamon and Arcite on the one hand, and Theseus on the other, in the hierarchical order of society; and between worldly and heavenly love in Troilus and Criseyde...

... that brings Troilus and Criseytle together, an event attributed to Fortune (Troilus and Criseyde, III.625,617-19).The lovers tend to identify Jove as God, expecting from him a moral order alien to the notion of KATHLEEN A. BLAKE...