Because in ancient Trojan times as imagined by a medieval London poet with a day job in the customs service it was rather difficult for unmarried young people of knightly status to spend time together the relationship is difficult to consummate but thanks to the pandering efforts of Troilus' friend Pandarus the impossible is managed but to no lasting benefit because due to a dasterdly prisoner exchange the lovers are separated.Įventually (view spoiler) (hide spoiler)].
Well, what story is this then? Set long ago and far away during the Trojan war, a war so long that anything could happen during it (view spoiler), a man and a woman love each other and then their relationship ends. One goes on a journey and its inevitability - because Chaucer makes the reader (view spoiler) into Cassandra, you know what is going to happen, but mysteriously the characters don't listen to you - is painful. I thought this was over the top, but having read it, I find myself in the same position. One goes on a journey and its inevitability - because Chaucer makes the reader (view spoiler) into Cassandra, you know what is going to happen, but mysteriously the characters don't listen to you - is painfu Somewhere, maybe on the back cover of this very book, the opinion was quoted that this was a book that because of the nature of the story it was painful to read a second time. Somewhere, maybe on the back cover of this very book, the opinion was quoted that this was a book that because of the nature of the story it was painful to read a second time. Once read it will never be forgotten.more
Troilus and Cressida, though often overshadowed by the Tales and time (and even Shakespeare who took up the story) is a monument in its own right in the canon of English literature. Emotions run high, the love is intense, the story unfolds with a dramatic urgency that draws the listener ever onwards yet Chaucer is Chaucer, and there are times when a deft line, a light insinuation, suggests the smile, the benevolence and the immediacy of the author of The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer’s long poem is cast in seven-line rhymed stanzas, and is eased out of Middle English to be presented here in a lively modern verse translation by George Philip Krapp, who has retained not only the structure, but its spirit. Cressida is the daughter of Calchas, a Trojan priest and seer who, having divined the eventual fall of Troy, has deserted to Agamemnon’s camp, leaving his daughter in the besieged city, With the help of Pander, friend to Troilus and uncle to Cressida, the young couple meet and merge – but with unhappy consequences. Written in the 1380s, it presents Troilus, son of Priam and younger brother of Hector as a Trojan warrior of renown who sees, and falls deeply in love with the beautiful Cressida. Written in the 1380s, it presents Troilus, son of Priam and younger brother of Hector as a Trojan warrior of renown who sees, and falls deeply in love with the beautif Considered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth, Troilus and Cressida is a tragic love story set against the background of the siege of Troy by the Greeks. Considered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth, Troilus and Cressida is a tragic love story set against the background of the siege of Troy by the Greeks.
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