Troilus and Criseyde in Modern Verse

by Geoffrey Chaucer, Joseph Glaser, Christine Chism

Overview

This fast-moving Modern English version of Chaucer's greatest tragic romance highlights the poem's rapid shifts in register and diction as well as its subtle and elusive characterizations, while preserving the enchanting rhyme-royal stanza of the Middle English original. Christine Chism's Introduction illuminates the work's historical context, poetic devices, first audiences, sources, and non-traditional re-conception of a traditional female protagonist "whose faults," as Criseyde says, "are rolled on every tongue."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781624661938
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/03/2014
Series:	Hackett Classics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Joseph Glaser is Professor Emeritus of English, Western Kentucky University. His Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse and Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse are also published by Hackett.

Christine Chism is Associate Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles.