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 vexed question of the signification of the references in Troilus and Criseyde is outside the scope of this discussion.
From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross
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.
The Squieres Tale forms, as it were, a half-way house between the serious treatment of romance in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knightes Tale, and the pure parody of Chaucer’s own “tale of mirthe.”
From Chaucer and His Times by Hadow, Grace E.
But they are not better in this respect than Troilus and Criseyde, which is the chief thing in Chaucer’s Italian period.
From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by Ker, W. P. (William Paton)
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