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Troilus & Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime royale and was written between 1381 and 1386. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet’s finest work. As a finished long poem it is more self-contained than the better known but ultimately uncompleted Canterbury Tales. This poem is often considered the source of the phrase: “all good things must come to an end.” While the original text was by Chaucer, it has here been translated and introduced by Stewart Boston.

Chaucer’s handling of the traditional tale of Troilus, noble warrior at the Seige of Troy, and his beautiful but faithless wife Criseyde, shows one of our greatest English Poets at the height of his powers. While his other masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, remained unfinished, Troilus and Criseyde is an intricately crafted whole, tracing in its five books the hero’s progress from an unrequited passion for Criseyde to its blissful consumation, and a tragic conclusion.

By presenting the translation side by side with Chaucer’s original, and supplying any necessary notes hoping to overcome any language problems, making this wonderful poem available in all its richness to modern readers. This superb edition is illustrated in full colour by Peter Brookes.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression No. 678
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 1990
• Quarter Dark Green Marroco Hardback, 495 pp
• Illustrations by Peter Brookes
• Size 280 x 185mm, 2.5kg

Condition: Near Fine – Light Slipcase Wear, Book Unmarked Copy

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