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The Tragic Argument of 'Troilus and Criseyde'.

Publication: Yearbook of English Studies
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Tragic Argument of 'Troilus and Criseyde'.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
The Tragic Argument of 'Troilus and Criseyde'. By GeraldMorgan. 2 vols. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press. 2005. xxi + 700 pp. 74.95 [pounds sterling]. isbn: 978-0-7734-5934-0 (vol. 1), 978-0-7734-5936-7 (vol. 2).

The appeal of the story of Troilus and Criseyde has proved just as potent as that of the city that provided so fittingly doomed a backdrop for their doomed love. Once Benoit de Sainte-Maure's twelfth-century elaboration of the sorrows of Homer's obscure Trojan prince and his treacherous lover Briseida had been put into Latin by the Sicilian jurist Guido delle Colonne, the tale of their deluded and faithless affection quickly...



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