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| List of Contributors | xi | |
| Note on the Illustrations | xii | |
| Note on the Texts | xiii | |
| 1. | Antiquity and Beyond: The Death of Troilus | 1 |
| 2. | The Birth of Criseyde--An Exemplary Triangle: 'Classical' Troilus and the Question of Love at the Anglo-Norman Court | 21 |
| 3. | A Lyrical Version: Boccaccio's Filostrato | 49 |
| 4. | The Fall of Troy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Troilus and Criseyde | 75 |
| 5. | Comedy and Tragedy in Troilus and Criseyde | 95 |
| 6. | Classical and Medieval Elements in Chaucer's Troilus | 111 |
| 7. | Chaucer's Troilus: Philosophy and Language | 133 |
| 8. | True Troilus and False Cresseid: The Descent from Tragedy | 153 |
| 9. | From 'History' to 'Tragedy': The Story of Troilus and Criseyde in Lydgate's Troy Book and Henryson's Testament of Cresseid | 171 |
| 10. | Fragments and Scraps: Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida | 199 |
| 11. | Shakespeare and Chaucer: 'What is Criseyde worth?' | 219 |
| 12. | 'To Make that Maxim Good': Dryden's Shakespeare | 243 |
| 13. | Eros and Thanatos: Cressida, Troilus, and the Modern Age | 281 |
| Index | 307 |
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Dan Gieschen
reviewed The European Tragedy of Troilus on September 25, 2020
The European Tragedy of Troilus
In the course of teaching high school sophomores for thirty years, I have read Julius Caesar more than thirty times, and I never grow tired of its richness of detail or the complexity of its characters. Almost every year, I end up asking myself the same simple question--"Whom do I like better? Cassius or Brutus?"--and almost every year my answer is different from what it was the year before.
On one hand, we have Cassius, the selfish, manipulative conspirator who, after the assassination, shows himself to be an impulsive, loyal friend and an able politician, and, on the other hand, Brutus, the conscientious intellectual and lover of the republic who becomes, under the weight of his guilt, an irritatingly scrupulous moralist and an inept general more concerned with reputation than success. And then of course there is Antony: brilliant, vicious, unscrupulous, and ultimately as unknowable as a tornado.
This is a great play about politics and human character.
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