... deployed it extensively in his Troilus and Cressida . While delineating Menippean elements in Troilus , we also confront certain problems involved in defining— even in discussing—genre and character. Whether or not a distinct genre,traditionally called Menippean satire, can be arrived at or agreed upon...

... 2002 Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature , 17th ed. , edited by Kaplan Justin ( Boston : Little, Brown ). Bloomfield Morton W. 1957 “ Distance and Predestination in Troilus...

... interest in Boethius (477 524), whose Consolation of Philosophy he translated into a prose work now known as the Boece (c. 1384). Boethius was likewise a major influence onUsk s work. In recalling the Boece or perhaps the more Boethian moments in Chau- cer s Troilus and Criseyde, which he also mentions...

... in Genre ( The Hague : Mouton ). Shakespeare William 2007a Troilus and Cressida , edited by Mowat Barbara A. Werstine Paul ( New York : Washington Square Press ). 2007b King Lear , edited by Raffel Burton ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press ). Shen Dan...

..., and The Legend of Good Women), Alcuin Blamires on Troilus and Criseyde, and Corinne Saunders on The Canterbury Tales. In addition, there are essays on William Langland’s Piers Plowman (by Lawrence Warner) and the poetry of John Gower (by R. F. Yeager), and two articles dedicated to the anonymous poet who...

... poems” (The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women), Alcuin Blamires on Troilus and Criseyde, and Corinne Saunders on The Canterbury Tales. In addition, there are essays on William Langland’s Piers Plowman (by Lawrence Warner) and the poetry...

... Today 34:1 – 2 basis for Modern English. Helen Phillips writes on his four “dream poems” (The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women), Alcuin Blamires on Troilus and Criseyde, and Corinne Saunders on The Canterbury Tales. In addition...

... poems” (The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women), Alcuin Blamires on Troilus and Criseyde, and Corinne Saunders on The Canterbury Tales. In addition, there are essays on William Langland’s Piers Plowman (by Lawrence Warner) and the poetry...

... Today 34:1 – 2 basis for Modern English. Helen Phillips writes on his four “dream poems” (The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women), Alcuin Blamires on Troilus and Criseyde, and Corinne Saunders on The Canterbury Tales. In addition...

... Today 34:1 – 2 basis for Modern English. Helen Phillips writes on his four “dream poems” (The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women), Alcuin Blamires on Troilus and Criseyde, and Corinne Saunders on The Canterbury Tales. In addition...

... Today 34:1 – 2 basis for Modern English. Helen Phillips writes on his four “dream poems” (The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women), Alcuin Blamires on Troilus and Criseyde, and Corinne Saunders on The Canterbury Tales. In addition...

... Today 34:1 – 2 basis for Modern English. Helen Phillips writes on his four “dream poems” (The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women), Alcuin Blamires on Troilus and Criseyde, and Corinne Saunders on The Canterbury Tales. In addition...

... of a facile realism. Most importantly, for a historical analysis of English-language fictional narrative, strategies of realism can be found not only in the traditional novel from Daniel Defoe onward but as early as the fourteenth century in the work of Geoffrey Chaucer. Troilus and Criseyde has often...

... ignores autho- rial intention—or what could, in any reading, be called the intention of the text. Troilus did his best to die in a love cause but was actually killed as collateral damage in the random violence of war. Leander “went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont,” and so in this reading...