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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 499
Publisher
Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
Critical discussion of three Shakespeare plays, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well that Ends Well, and Measure for Measure, that defy attempts to classify them as either comedy, romance, tragedy, or satire.
Author
Series
Chaucer Society publications. First volume 99
Publisher
Johnson Reprint Corp
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Series
Pegasus paperbooks volume no. 10
Publisher
Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Author
Series
(Samuel Aaron),Elizabethan bibliographies volume no. 29
Publisher
S.A. Tannenbaum
Pub. Date
1943
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
The three Oxford Guides to Chaucer are written by scholars of international repute, with the purpose of summarizing what is known about his works and offering interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding. Barry Windeatt's volume on Troilus and Criseyde examines the poem that is Chaucer's most ambitious single achievement, his masterpiece, and one of the very finest narrative poems in the English...
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Focuses upon the aspects of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' which criticize erotic love, tracing the poem's transformations of Boccaccio's Filostrato and assessing external and internal evidence of attitudes towards love and sexuality. Contemporary negative opinions of love, especially those of John Gower (to whom Troilus is dedicated) clarify the proper subordination of human love to human will and the significance of Troilus's debasement....
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Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
More than any other poet in Chaucer's library, Ovid was concerned with the game of love. Chaucer learned his sexual poetics from Ovid, and his fascination with Ovidian love strategies is prominent in his own writing. This book is the fullest study of Ovid and Chaucer available and the only one to focus on love, desire, and the gender-power struggles that Chaucer explores through Ovid. Michael Calabrese begins by recounting medieval biographical data...