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Troilus and
Criseyde (/ˈtrɔɪləs ... krɪˈseɪdə/) is an epic poem by
Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in
Middle English the
tragic story of the
lovers Troilus...
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Cressida (/ˈkrɛsɪdə/; also Criseida,
Cresseid or
Criseyde) is a
character who
appears in many
Medieval and
Renaissance retellings of the
story of the Trojan...
- Duchess, The
House of Fame, The
Legend of Good Women, and
Troilus and
Criseyde. He is seen as
crucial in
legitimising the
literary use of
Middle English...
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color name in
English was in 1374 in
Geoffrey Chaucer's work
Troilus and
Criseyde,
where he
refers to "a broche, gold and asure" (a brooch, gold and azure)...
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denizens of **** in Dante's Inferno, and winkingly, as
between Pandarus and
Criseyde in Chaucer's Troilus. The
Marquis de Sade was
famously fascinated with...
- context,
earlier than that.
Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century
Troilus and
Criseyde uses it in a way that
shows it was
already a
traditional religious phrase:...
- her hair,
which bit and
killed him. In Book I of Chaucer's
Troilus and
Criseyde, the
narrator calls upon her to help him to
write the
tragedy properly...
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world on six and seven", is used by
Geoffrey Chaucer in his
Troilus and
Criseyde. It
dates from the mid-1380s and
seems from its
context to mean "to hazard...
- a
slepyng hound to wake"
belongs to
Chaucer (c. 1385 AD, "Troilus and
Criseyde", III.764) and is
predated by
earlier French: n'ésveillez pas lou chien...
- this plotline, in
particular Chaucer's
version of the tale,
Troilus and
Criseyde, but also John Lydgate's Troy Book and Caxton's
translation of the Recuyell...
