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Shakespeare's deconstruction of exempla in Troilus and Cressida
… exempla and the tradition they represented. In Troilus and Cressida, instead of presenting an internally consistent alternative version of the Troy story, Shakespeare presents a deconstructed narrative in which nothing is definitive or authoritative. Many of Troilus and Cressida’s characters …
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"The Significance Of The Tradition Of Nature In Chaucer's ""troilus And Criseyde."""
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Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: Criseydan Conversations 1986-2002 A Narrative Bibliography
… the character and actions of Criseyde in the Troilus. Criseyde is arguably the quintessential character in Chaucer's works. She is wonderfully enigmatic, and her role in the Troilus spawned six hundred years of debate. The chapters which follow testify to the complexity of Criseyde. As she …
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Towards an Edition of Troilus and Criseyde: The Work, Authorial Versions, and Digital Tools
… the textual tradition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde using phylogenetic methods. It has three main goals: (1) to show that phylogenetic methods can illuminate the relationships within the textual tradition, (2) to challenge the “three-version” theory that has influenced Troilus …
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Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> in Male Homosocial Contexts: The Politicization of Same-Sex Desire
… culture, investigating both Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> and its cultural and political environments. I articulate two conflicting attitudes toward male same-sex relations: one affirming and celebratory, the other homophobic. I conclude that Chaucer's poem both replicates and …
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Mirror Imagery in Chaucer's Trolius and Criseide
<p>Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseide, written almost 600 years ago, continues to delight those who read it and continues to invite new avenues of interpretation.</p> <p>Among the aspects of the poem which have been carefully studied are the enigma of the heroine's personality and the reasons …
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"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun": fool-characters and comic dramatic structures in Hamlet, Twelfth night and Troilus and Cressida
… characters in the analysis. In the chapter on Troilus and Cressida--a dramatic work frequently categorized as a "problem play"-the dramatic functions of two fool-characters, Pandarus and Thersites, are explored. The thesis examines the sources and theatrical traditions relevant to the analysed …
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'The Slaves of Chance': Aspects of the Exposition of Change in Some of Shakepeare's Works and their Sources
… discussions of the Boethian element in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, the rhetoric of change in Lydgate's Troy Book, and the debt owed to both works by Brooke's pseudo-medieval Romeus and Juliet point to elements of subversion in Troilus and Cressida and Romeo and Juliet. In Chapter five readings …
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Telling tales out of school : schoolbooks, audiences, and the production of vernacular literature in late medieval England
… audiences. In Chapter 2, a reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde informed with a knowledge of the formal features of letter writing, particularly the attention to audience stressed in the grammar schoolbooks, reveals Criseyde’s control of both the story’s ending and the responses of readers …
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'And Hector laughed': comic treatment of the myth of the Trojan War in early modern England
… The thesis also re-contextualises Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. With its irreverent tone and a fixation on characters’ laughter, the play is shown to be participating in the nascent tradition of mocking Troy’s exemplary legacy, a tradition that Troilus and Cressida itself seems to propel by …
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Tricking for change: Establishing the literary trickster in the western tradition
… Song of Ice and Fire</em> and Pandarus from <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em>—will demonstrate how the literary trickster functions.</p>
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The Literary Lives of Intention in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England
… related to the Rising of 1381, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, The Testimony of William Thorpe, and The Book of Margery Kempe;. These texts employed contemporary notions of intention to represent interiority and to establish morally coherent narratives. Late fourteenth- and early …
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Penance and Penitential Intent within Religious Themed Works of Chaucer
… The most prominent of these works include Troilus and Criseyde, the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women, and the Canterbury Tales told by the Friar, Pardoner, and Parson. All of these draw attention to the importance of penitence despite their emphasis on classical mythology and …
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The evolution and ecological genetics of pupal color dimorphism in swallowtail butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilioninae)
… produce only brown pupae while P. polyxenes, P. troilus, Battus philenor and Eurytides marcellus produce both green and brown pupae. Natural pupation sites of the species were located and results were generally consistent with the hypothesis of Sheppard (1958) which relates the evolution of the …
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Gentlemen’s Anxiety: Contesting Authority in Shakespeare’s Plays
… of The Taming of the Shrew, Henry VI, Part 2, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet. Rather than treating gentility in Shakespeare's drama as a broad social identity or a loose symbolic repository of moral and cultural values, this study approaches Shakespeare's representation of gentility as a …
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Private Matters: The Place of Privacy in English Legal Records, Romances, and Letters, 1300-1500
… literature including, but not only, Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Malory's Le Morte Darthur. My study explains the dynamics between privacy and place in urban property, romance beds, marriage, and widowhood by utilizing a theoretical framework developed by …
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SONIC INTERVENTIONS: SILENCE, SOUND, AND MELODY IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
… to early-fifteenth-century: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, the anonymous Le Roman de Silence, the aptly named Book of Margery Kempe, John Gower’s “Apollonius of Tyre” and the anonymous, late fifth-century Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri. These five works may differ in author, time of …
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An Ecoritical Approach to Chaucer. Representations of the Natural World in the English Literature of the Middle Ages
… interpretation of some of Chaucer's works: Troilus and Criseyde, the House of Fame, the Parlement of Foules, and a small selection from the Canterbury Tales. The study of these works shows how Chaucer, albeit not deeply or exclusively involved with the specific matter of an "ecological" idea …
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Boethian Colorings in Geoffrey Chaucer's Earlier Poetry: The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame
… known works, such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, yet there has not been much light shone on his other works, namely The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, and The House of Fame, which are a rich mix of medieval conventions and Boethian elements and themes. Such …
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