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A Double Sorrow: A Version of Troilus and Criseyde

Author : Lavinia Greenlaw
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247333
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book A Double Sorrow: A Version of Troilus and Criseyde written by Lavinia Greenlaw and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original poetic work that brings alive Chaucer’s great love story, illuminating the psychological drama at its heart. The captivating love story of ill-fated Troilus and Criseyde, first popularized by Chaucer’s poem in the 1380s, is one of the most enduring stories of the English language. In A Double Sorrow, award-winning poet Lavinia Greenlaw breathes fresh life into the medieval tale through a series of seven-line stanzas, which mimic the form of Chaucer’s original poem. Set during the siege of Troy, A Double Sorrow is the story of the Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father defects to the Greeks and persuades them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners. Troilus suggests that Criseyde flee with him, but she knows she will be universally condemned and instead pretends to submit to the exchange while promising Troilus that she will find a way to return to him within ten days. But once in the company of the Greeks, she soon realizes the impossibility of her promise to Troilus and in despair succumbs to another. In this series of skillfully crafted poetic vignettes, Greenlaw illuminates each small but irrevocable step as these characters argue each other and themselves into and out of love. The result is a breathtaking and shattering read, contemporary and timeless.

A Double Sorrow

Author : Lavinia Greenlaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571284559
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book A Double Sorrow written by Lavinia Greenlaw and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Chaucer composed 'Troilus and Criseyde' he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written. 'A Double Sorrow' takes its title from the opening line of that poem in a fresh telling of this most tortured of love affairs.

The Double Sorrow of Troilus

Author : Ida L. Gordon
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Double Sorrow of Troilus written by Ida L. Gordon and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Troilus and Criseyde

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199555079
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Troilus and Criseyde written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight. This new translation into modern English by a major Chaucerian scholar includes an index of the names relating to the Trojan War and an Index of Proverbs.

The Double Sorrow of Trolilus : a Study of Ambiguities in Troilus and Criseyde

Author : Ida L. Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (919 download)

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Book Synopsis The Double Sorrow of Trolilus : a Study of Ambiguities in Troilus and Criseyde by : Ida L. Gordon

Download or read book The Double Sorrow of Trolilus : a Study of Ambiguities in Troilus and Criseyde written by Ida L. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Telling Tales

Author : Patience Agbabi
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1782111565
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Telling Tales written by Patience Agbabi and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015 Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral, Poet pilgrims competing for free picks, Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remix From below-the-belt base to the topnotch; I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatch when the tales overrun, run offensive, or run clean out of steam, they're authentic and we're keeping it real, reminisce this: Chaucer Tales were an unfinished business. In Telling Tales award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-Century remix of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Miller's Tale to the Wife of Bath's in her own critically acclaimed poetic style. Celebrating Chaucer's Middle-English masterwork for its performance element as well as its poetry and pilgrims, Agbabi's newest collection is utterly unique. Boisterous, funky, foul-mouthed, sublimely lyrical and bursting at the seams, Telling Tales takes one of Britain's most significant works of literature and gives it thrilling new life.

Il Filostrato

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367111182
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Il Filostrato written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this translated version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato is of particular interest as the principal source for Chaucer's great work, the Troilus. This edition includes the original Italian alongside the translation, so that even the English reader with no knowledge of Italian will be able to make out a good deal of the original assisted by a close translation.

Troilus and Criseyde

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734013127
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Troilus and Criseyde written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Troilus and Cressida

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troilus and Cressida written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the wealth of formal debate contained in this tragedy, Troilus and Cressida was probably written in 1602 for a performance at one of the Inns of the Court. Shakespeare's treatment of the age-old tale of love and betrayal is based on many sources, from Homer and Ovid to Chaucer andShakespeare's near contemporary Robert Greene. In the introduction the various problems connected with the play, its performance, and publication, are considered succinctly; its multiple sources are discussed in detail, together with its peculiar stage history and its renewed popularity in recentyears.

Confessio Amantis of John Gower

Author : John Gower
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessio Amantis of John Gower written by John Gower and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Troy, Unincorporated

Author : Francesca Abbate
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226001229
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Troy, Unincorporated written by Francesca Abbate and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on the nature of betrayal, the constraints of identity, and the power of narrative, the lyric monologues in Troy, Unincorporated offer a retelling, or refraction, of Chaucer’s tragedy Troilus and Criseyde. The tale’s unrooted characters now find themselves adrift in the industrialized farmlands, strip malls, and half-tenanted “historic” downtowns of south-central Wisconsin, including the real, and literally unincorporated, town of Troy. Allusive and often humorous, they retain an affinity with Chaucer, especially in terms of their roles: Troilus, the good courtly lover, suffers from the weeps, or, in more modern terms, depression. Pandarus, the hard-working catalyst who brings the lovers together in Chaucer’s poem, is here a car mechanic. Chaucer’s narrator tells a story he didn’t author, claiming no power to change the course of events, and the narrator and characters in Troy, Unincorporated struggle against a similar predicament. Aware of themselves as literary constructs, they are paradoxically driven by the desire to be autonomous creatures—tale tellers rather than tales told. Thus, though Troy, Unincorporated follows Chaucer’s plot—Criseyde falls in love with Diomedes after leaving Troy to live with her father, who has broken his hip, and Troilus dies of a drug overdose—it moves beyond Troilus’s death to posit a possible fate for Criseyde on this “litel spot of erthe.”

The Testament of Cresseid

Author : Robert Henryson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107636264
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Testament of Cresseid written by Robert Henryson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1926, this volume contains the full text of The Testament of Cresseid by Scottish poet Robert Henryson.

The Book of the Duchess

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Duchess written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Duchess is a surreal poem that was presumably written as an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster's (the wife of Geoffrey Chaucer's patron, the royal Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt) death in 1368 or 1369. The poem was written a few years after the event and is widely regarded as flattering to both the Duke and the Duchess. It has 1334 lines and is written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.

The Casual Perfect

Author : Lavinia Greenlaw
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571260292
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Casual Perfect written by Lavinia Greenlaw and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert Lowell's to describe Elizabeth Bishop -- one of the book's presiding spirits, with her insistence on the provisional, on the moment in which perception is formed, on landscape as action rather than description. The Casual Perfect continues Lavinia Greenlaw's explorations of light and the borders of vision, which include a journey to the four corners of Britain to observe the solstices and equinoxes, and a cycle about the East Anglian landscape which is nine-tenths sky. Questions of travel hover around many of these poems, or questions which need to be 'travelled fully' rather than answered -- and which involve the overheard and the glimpsed, what is gleaned from traces and external signs. The result is a collection that is under-stated, spare but inclusive, which invites our presence as readers.

Questions of Travel

Author : Lavinia Greenlaw
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1910749346
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Questions of Travel written by Lavinia Greenlaw and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw's poetic reflections on William Morris's Icelandic Journal, one of the overlooked masterpieces of travel literature The great Victorian designer and decorative artist William Morris was fascinated by Iceland and wrote a book documenting his travels there. He gets caught up with questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving, to hurry and delay, what it means to dread a place you’ve never been to or to encounter the actuality of a long-held vision. He is sensitive to the emotional landscape of his band of travelers and, above all, continuously analyzing and fixing this “most romantic of all deserts.” Lavinia Greenlaw follows in his footsteps, and interposes his prose with her own “questions of travel.” The result is a new and composite work that brilliantly explores our conflicted reasons for not staying at home.

Phaedra and Other Plays

Author : Seneca
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141970944
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Phaedra and Other Plays written by Seneca and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying death of Astyanax is recounted in Trojan Women, and Phaedra deals with forbidden love. In Oedipus a nervous man discovers himself, while Thyestes recounts the bitter family struggle for a crown. Of uncertain authorship, Octavia dramatizes Nero's divorce from his wife and her deportation. The only Latin tragedies to have survived complete, these plays are masterpieces of vibrant, muscular language and psychological insight.

Troilus and Criseyde

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191611069
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Troilus and Criseyde written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1998-04-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.