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, the 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. Contributors:Piero
Boitani, University of Rome, Malcolm Andrew, Queen's University,
Belfast, C. David Benson, University of Connecticut, Jill Mann,
University of Cambridge, Karl Reichl, University of Bonn, Anna
Torti, University of Verona, Barry Windeatt, University of
Cambridge, Sergio Rufini, University of Perugia, Giulia Natali,
University of Rome, Agostino Lombardo, University of Rome, Roberto
Antonelli, University of Rome, Derek Brewer, University of
Cambridge
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