About this title: Despite his resolve to avoid romantic entanglements, the poor Trojan prince Troilus falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde. After a brief affair, the lovers are separated when Criseyde is sent to the Greek camp and betrays Troilus by falling in love with the Greek Diomede. Heartbroken, Troilus fights to his death at the hand of Achilles. ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dent
Date Published: 1953
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Nice hard cover, lightly read, acetate over dust jacket, light aging to pages, front flap cut off dust jacket & pasted inside cover, library stamps & stickers, stk #1107h9. 337p., 19 cm. read more
Description: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: SOME ] [ Writing: SOME ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: Colleagues Press Pub Date: 1/1/1989 Binding: Paperback Pages: 312. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"I had pretty high hopes for this one. I enjoyed The Canterbury Tales(Well, most of them), so I thought Chaucer's wit combined with Greek Mythology would be an interesting combination. I was wrong. I learned that I find incessant pining to be neither entertaining nor romantic. There some interesting ideas at work, but overall a laborious read."
"I read this for a Chaucer course and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I'd already read The Canterbury Tales and found them very amusing, but I figured that this would be more serious in tone and less humorous. I was surprised at how ironic and clever the work was; Chaucer's narrator is always entertaining and I was delighted to read his characteristic witty remarks.
The story itself is classic, although not exactly my preferred taste. Despite this, Chaucer's characters are wonderful and for me, personally, they compensated for my lack of interest in the actual plot. Troilus is so over-the-top in dramatics that he's quite entertaining, and Pandarus (aside from being creepy) is a very funny character. I wasn't too taken with Criseyde, and I was unsure at Chaucer's intention in regards to her character; either way, she's certainly the most complex of the leads.
The poetry is moving and beautiful, and middle English is well served in Troilus and Criseyde. In particular I enjoyed the introductory scenes of Criseyde, and all of Pandarus' advice to Troilus.
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