Boccaccio's and Chaucer's CressidaDuring the Middle Ages, the story of Cressida's infidelity to Troilus intrigued writers, and different versions of this tale continued to be retold and reworked through the Renaissance. This study focuses on the figure of Cressida in two fourteenth century works, Boccaccio's Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and devotes particular attention both to classical and medieval prototypes for Cressida and to each narrator's role in shaping her. The study's originality derives from its compelling demonstration of the tensions between a Cressida defined by literary history and convention and a Cressida recast through perceptually limited narrators. Offering Dido as a dynamic model for Cressida, this book provides an extensive treatment of Boccaccio's Dido. |
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... Dante the lover , like Filostrato , seeks an outlet for his grief through writing a poem , a canzone.11 In the Vita nuova Dante's grief results from Beatrice's death , a departure quite unlike that of a Filomena , a lady who merely ...
... Dante the lover , like Filostrato , seeks an outlet for his grief through writing a poem , a canzone.11 In the Vita nuova Dante's grief results from Beatrice's death , a departure quite unlike that of a Filomena , a lady who merely ...
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... Dante's " colore purpureo " and his martyr - like appearance ( IV . 100. 7-8 ) . Chaucer , however , makes the tear ... Dante , the purple ring around Criseyde's eyes would perhaps signify her pain , a pain not associated directly with ...
... Dante's " colore purpureo " and his martyr - like appearance ( IV . 100. 7-8 ) . Chaucer , however , makes the tear ... Dante , the purple ring around Criseyde's eyes would perhaps signify her pain , a pain not associated directly with ...
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... Dante Project ) . Dante's allusion to Prudence does not , therefore , seem obscure . The text and translation have been quoted from De inventione , trans . H. M. Hubbell ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard UP ; London : William Heinemann , 1956 ) ...
... Dante Project ) . Dante's allusion to Prudence does not , therefore , seem obscure . The text and translation have been quoted from De inventione , trans . H. M. Hubbell ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard UP ; London : William Heinemann , 1956 ) ...
Contents
A Note on Sources and Translations | 1 |
Boccaccios Criseida and Her Narrator | 29 |
Chaucers Criseyde and Her Narrator | 61 |
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