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Allen J. Frantzen.
Troilus and Criseyde: The Poem and the Frame.
Published New York: Twayne, 1993.
Series Twayne’s Masterwork Studies, no. 113.
ISBN 0805785817;
ISBN-13: 9780805785814.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 135×214×13mm.
Page count: xiv,158pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has the usual scuffs and marks on its covers, corners starting to curl and fray, and a heavy crease across the top corner on the front cover; some noticeable foxing on the page edges; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 216g.

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One of the few introductions to Chaucer’s poem of failed love amid the ruins of war, Allen J. Frantzen’s study distinguishes itself by accommodating the multiplicity of ideas at play both within the text and among the various interpretations of Troilus and Criseyde that have fallen in and out of vogue since it first appeared in medieval London.

Contents:
Literary & historical context: social text, historical context; Importance of the work; Critical reception & the history of the work;
A reading: Looking through and at the frame; Book 1 & the narrator; Book 2 & Pandarus; Book 3 & Boethius; Book 4 & the war; Book 5 & fate; Criseyde and Troilus.

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