Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation - Brossura

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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ISBN 10: 0192832905 ISBN 13: 9780192832900

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1998

Riassunto

`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died' Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of Troilus and Criseyde will always be united: a pair of lovers whose names are inseparable from passion and tragedy. Troilus and Criseyde is Chaucer's masterpiece and was prized for centuries as his supreme achievement. The story of how Troilus and Criseyde discover love and how she abandons him for Diomede after her departure from Troy is dramatically presented in all its comedy and tragic pathos. With its deep humanity and penetrating insight, Troilus and Criseyde is now recognized as one of the finest narrative poems in the English language. This is a new translation into contemporary English of Chaucer's greatest single poem which can be read alongside the Middle English original, or as an accurate and readable version in its own right.

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L'autore:

Chaucer was probably born some time during the 1340s. He was well educated and worked as a page for the Earl of Ulster, where he would have learned French. Around age 25, be became a squire in the court of King Edward III, and he spent the rest of his life as a public servant. He was twice sent on diplomatic trips to Italy in the 1370s; he was also a customs officer and a justice of the peace. He died in 1400.

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Book by Chaucer Geoffrey

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• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0192832905
• ISBN 13: 9780192832900
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Windeatt Barry