The European Tragedy of Troilus.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Anstreichungen, ansonsten altersgem�tadelloser Zustand / Markings, otherwise impeccable condition for age - This book, the first to be devoted to the story of Troilus and Cressida as it develops through the ages and in various literatures, is the joint effort of an international team of scholars. It studies a myth which represents an important aspect of the European imagination: the way in which the problems of love and death are faced in narrative, poetry, drama, and opera. From the Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans the story passes into the hands of artists such as Benoit de Sainte-Maure, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Henryson, Shakespeare, and Dryden, and is finally resurrected in the twentieth century in America, England, and Germany. This book analyses the changes�both literary and more broadly imaginative�that minor and major writers have introduced, and thus constitutes the product of a truly intertextual and comparative approach. While devoting attention to all these authors and their works, this volume concentrates on the treatment of the theme in Chaucer and Shakespeare and is therefore aimed at students of English and Comparative Literature as well as those general readers who are interested in the history of European culture. -- Contents -- Antiquity and Beyond: The Death of Troilus -- PIERO BOITANI -- The Birth of Criseyde�An Exemplary Triangle: �Classical� Troilus and the Question of Love at the Anglo-Norman Court -- ROBERTO ANTONELLI -- A Lyrical Version: Boccaccio�s Filostrato -- GIULIA NATALI -- The Fall of Troy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Troilus and Criseyde -- MALCOLM ANDREW -- Comedy and Tragedy in Troilus and Criseyde -- DEREK BREWER -- Classical and Medieval Elements in Chaucer�s Troilus -- BARRY WINDEATT -- Chaucer�s Troilus-. Philosophy and Language -- KARL REICHL -- True Troilus and False Cresseid: The Descent from Tragedy -- C. DAVID BENSON -- From �History� to �Tragedy�: The Story of Troilus and Criseyde in Lydgate�s Troy Book and Henryson�s Testament of Cresseid -- ANNA TORTI -- Fragments and Scraps: Shakespeare�s Troilus and Cressida -- AGOSTINO LOMBARDO -- Shakespeare and Chaucer: �What is Criseyde worth?� -- JILL MANN -- �To Make that Maxim Good�: Dryden�s Shakespeare -- SERGIO RUFINI -- Eros and Thanatos: Cressida, Troilus, and the Modern -- Age -- PIERO BOITANI. ISBN 9780198129707