Description
| Product ID: | 9780140424218 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Troilus and Criseyde |
| Authors: | Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Page Count: | 640 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, this poem of Chaucer relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover, only to be betrayed when she is handed over to the Greek camp and yields to Diomede. Chaucer''s longest complete poem is the supreme evocation of doomed courtly love in medieval English literature. Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the poem relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde''s wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover, only to be betrayed when she is handed over to the Greek camp and yields to Diomede. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2003-09-25 |
