Troilus and Criseyde in Modern Verse by Geoffrey Chaucer HARDBACK 9781624661945

Troilus and Criseyde in Modern Verse\nby Geoffrey Chaucer\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Geoffrey Chaucer\nTitle: Troilus and Criseyde in Modern Verse\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Poetry\nPublisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc\nPublication year: 2014\nISBN-13: 9781624661945\nISBN-10: 1624661947\nRRP: \u00A340.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis fast-moving Modern English version of Chaucer's greatest tragic romance highlights the poem's rapid shifts in register and diction as well as its subtle and elusive characterizations, while preserving the enchanting rhyme-royal stanza of the Middle English original. Christine Chism's Introduction illuminates the work's historical context, poetic devices, first audiences, sources, and non-traditional re-conception of a traditio.