Troilus and Criseyde

This middle-English edition of Chaucer's great poem also includes notes, text summary, selected criticism, chronology of the author's life and times and an on-page glossary. This is Geoffrey Chaucer's longest complete poem demonstrating doomed courtly love.This middle-English edition of Chaucer's great poem also includes notes, text summary, selected criticism, chronology of Chaucer's life and times and an on-page glossary. The editor presents Chaucer scholarship in an introduction, discussing the traditions and sources of the story, the themes of manhood and womanhood, and the role of fate in the lovers' tragedy.