Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare : Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida.

Cover -- Love, history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 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 -- 1 'Expectation whirls me round':hope, fear and time in Troilus and Cressida: Kai Wiegandt -- 2 'Potent raisings':performing passion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: Andreas Mahler -- 3 The space of desire in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Troy: Paul Strohm -- 4 What's Hecuba to him? Absence, silence and lament in Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida: Hester Lees-Jeffries -- 5 Remembering to forget inShakespeare's Troilus and Cressida:narrative palimpsestsand moribund epochalities: Russell West-Pavlov -- 6 'Language in her eye':the expressive face of Criseyde/Cressida: Stephanie Trigg -- 7 The presence of Troilus and Cressida: Shakespeare's refurbishment of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: John Drakakis -- 8 'Stewed phrase' and the impassioned imagination in Shakespeare'sTroilus and Cressida: Verena Olejniczak Lobsien -- 9 Arrogant authorial performances:Criseyde to Cressida: Wolfram R. Keller -- 10 Changing emotions in Troilus:the crucial year: David Wallace -- 11 Gendered books:reading, space and intimacy inChaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: Andrew James Johnston -- 12 'The formless ruin of oblivion': Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and literary defacement: James Simpson -- Index.

This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare.

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