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Boccaccio's and Chaucer's Cressida / Laura D. Kellogg.
- Title
- Boccaccio's and Chaucer's Cressida / Laura D. Kellogg.
- Author
- Kellogg, Laura Dowell.
- Publication
- New York : P. Lang, ©1995.
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- Description
- 144 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- During the Middle Ages, the story of Cressida's infidelity to Troilus intrigued writers, and different versions of this tale continued to be retold and reworked through the Renaissance. This study focuses on the figure of Cressida in two fourteenth century works, Boccaccio's Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and devotes particular attention both to classical and medieval prototypes for Cressida and to each narrator's role in shaping her. The study's originality derives from its compelling demonstration of the tensions between a Cressida defined by literary history and convention and a Cressida recast through perceptually limited narrators. Offering Dido as a dynamic model for Cressida, this book provides an extensive treatment of Boccaccio's Dido.
- Series Statement
- Studies in the humanities, 0742-6712 ; v. 16
- Uniform Title
- Studies in the humanities (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 16.
- Subject
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. > Sources
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > Cressida
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 > Influence
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, m. 1400. > Sources
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, m. 1400 > Cressida
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375
- Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400
- Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Cressida
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
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- Trojan War
- Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Il Filostrato
- To 1500
- Women and literature > England > History > To 1500
- Women and literature > Italy > History > To 1500
- Troilus (Legendary character) in literature
- Man-woman relationships in literature
- English poetry > Italian influences
- Cressida (Fictitious character)
- Trojan War > Literature and the war
- Women in literature
- Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la litt�erature
- Po�esie anglaise > Influence italienne
- Cressida (Personnage fictif)
- Guerre de Troie > Litt�erature et guerre
- Femmes dans la litt�erature
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Women and literature
- Troylus and Cryseyde (Chaucer)
- Filostrato (Boccaccio)
- Criseyde
- England
- Italy
- Genre/Form
- History
- Sources
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-144).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I. Cressida's Literary History and Her Inheritance from Dido. The Literary History of Cressida. The Cressida of Boccaccio and Chaucer: Contaminations of Dido -- II. Boccaccio's Criseida and Her Narrator -- III. Chaucer's Criseyde and Her Narrator -- Appendix: Boccaccio's Dido. Dido in the opere minori in volgare. Dido in the Later Prose Works.
- ISBN
- 0820425591
- 9780820425597
- LCCN
- 94017920
- OCLC
- 30399273
- SCSB-11568405
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library