AbstractsLanguage, Literature & Linguistics

A Comparison of Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Treatments of the Troilus-Cressida Story

by Merwin Elvin Taylor




Institution: North Texas State College
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Year: 1951
Keywords: Chaucer; Shakespeare; Troilus and Cressida; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Troilus and Criseyde.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Troilus and Cressida.
Record ID: 1580130
Full text PDF: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97056/


Abstract

The purpose of this study is to trace the changes that the story of Troilus-Cressida underwent from age to age and to discover how these came about and how they influenced the form and concept of Chaucer's and Shakespeare's versions of the tale.