Love, history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare : Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida /
This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare, looking at the powerful potential of emotions to shape and critique complex notions of temporality and textuality. The contributors show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use l...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: performing the politics of passion: Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida and the literary tradition of love and history / Andrew James Johnston and Russell West-Pavlov
- 'Expectation whirls me around': hope, fear and time in Troilus and Cressida / Kai Wiegandt
- 'Potent risings': performing passion in Chaucer and Shakespear / Andreas Mahler
- The space of desire in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Troy / Paul Strohm
- What's Hecuba to him? Absence, silence and lament in Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressidea / Hester Lees-Jeffries
- Remembering to forget in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: narrative palimpsests and moribund epochalities / Russell West-Pavlov
- 'Language in her eye': the expressive face of Criseyde/Cressida / Stephanie Trigg
- The presence of Troilus and Cressida: Shakespeare's refurbishment of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / John Drakakis
- 'Stewed phrase' and the impassioned imagination in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida / Verena Olejniczak Lobsien
- Arrogant authorial performances: Criseyde to Cressida / Wolfram R. Keller
- Changing emotions in Troilus: the crucial year / David Wallace
- Gendered books: reading, space and intimacy in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Andrew James Johnston
- 'The formless ruin of oblivion': Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and literary defacement / James Simpson.