Criseyde
Britishnoun
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"Go, litel book!" wrote Chaucer at the end of Troilus and Criseyde, sending his work on a journey that no man could complete.
From Time Magazine Archive
The idea of "Troilus and Criseyde," borrowed from Boccaccio, had been transformed; the general plan and the setting of the "Tales" are modified more profoundly yet.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules
The date of "Troilus and Criseyde" is a great date in English literature.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules
Troilus and Criseyde is taken from another poem by Boccaccio.
From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by Ker, W. P. (William Paton)
The Knightes Tale presents largely, I think, the humorous side of it, Troilus and Criseyde, the tragic, although there is some tragedy in the Knightes Tale and some comedy in Troilus.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.
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