Chaucer's Troylus and Cryseyde (from the Harl. ms. 3943) compared with Boccaccio's Filostrato

Description:

A 1932 translation into modern English of a text written by Chaucer in c.1385, the story being set in Classical Antiquity around 800 B.C. and being a love story concerning its two principal characters, the Trojan soldier Troilus and his Greek paramour, Cressida, set during the ten years of the Trojan War between Greece and the city state of Troy. The story is based on Classical sources, principally Homer's verses describing the Fall of Troy, and tells of the love between a hero of Troy and a Greek lady, at a time when they belonged to opposite sides in that war, a love beset by the difficulties which the conflict caused them.

subjects: Cressida (Fictitious character),  Facsimiles,  Fiction,  Greek Mythology,  Greeks,  Manuscripts,  Manuscripts, English (Middle),  Medieval Manuscripts,  Modern Civilization,  Narrative poetry, English (Middle),  Poetry,  Troilus (Legendary character),  Trojan War,  Welsh Manuscripts,  Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages,  open_syllabus_project,  Trojan War. fast (OCoLC)fst01157294,  Poetry (poetic works by one author),  Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, troilus and cressida,  Troilus (legendary character), poetry,  Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400,  Troilus (Legendary character) in literature,  Literature and the war,  Troïlos (Personnage légendaire),  Poésie,  Troïlos (Personnage légendaire) dans la littérature,  Cressida (Personnage fictif),  Guerre de Troie,  Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey),  English Manuscripts,  Princes,  Women,  Epic poetry, English (Middle)

People: Benoît de Sainte-Maure,  Geoffrey Chaucer (d.1400),  Troilus (Greek mythology)

Places: Cambridge,  England,  Troy (Extinct city),  Turkey,  Wales,  Canterbury

Times: The Trojan War,  c.800 B.C.