Troilus and Criseyde

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Other authorsNevill Coghill (Translator)
Paperback, 1971

Status

Available

Call number

821.1

Collection

Publication

Penguin Classics (1971), Paperback, 368 pages

Description

An accurate reproduction of what the poem was when Chaucer had made his final revisions--an enormously complex task, for the eighteen manuscripts and early printed editions show continuous alteration by the poet. Mr. Root's general solution of the problem will be accepted. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.… (more)

Media reviews

"Ye, hasel-wode!" - "Pustekuchen!" Chaucer wird den beiden fröhlichen Wissenschaftlern verzeihen, dass ihnen gelegentlich der Gaul durchgegangen ist, so wie er ihnen auch verzeihen wird, dass sie den "rhyme royal", seine schönen Troilusstrophen, in Prosa aufgelöst haben. Niemals ließe sich das
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komplizierte Reimschema in ein vernünftiges Deutsch übertragen, und schon gar nicht in einen Text von solcher Frische. Chaucer hätte bestimmt nichts dagegen gehabt. Wolfgang Obst und Florian Schleburg bestätigen schließlich, indem sie sie an unserer Sprache testen, aufs Schönste die Zeitlosigkeit seiner Verse.
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User reviews

LibraryThing member HuxleyTheCat
Rendered in modem English verse by George Philip Krapp; designed by George W. Jones; printed by Ernest Ingham at The Fanfare Press; set in linotype Granjon; Mailing Mills special paper; bound by LeightonStraker Bookbinding Company in half white canvas, gray-green paper sides, printed black and red;
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334 pages, 7~ x 12~ inches. No. 113
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LibraryThing member brakketh
Very hard work getting through the Chaucerian language.

Language

Original language

English (Middle)

Original publication date

1374 to 1386
1955 (Maldwyn Mills edition)
1926 (Robert K. Root critical edition with the readings of all known manuscripts)

Physical description

368 p.; 7.74 inches

ISBN

0140442391 / 9780140442397

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