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“This book is so efficient in the way it gives you the information you need to see the range of possibilities in the poem in 300 or 400 pages. None of the editions of Troilus and Criseyde quite have space to do this. Windeatt gives you information about the sources that we’ve been talking about, and about Chaucer’s structuring of the plot, its symmetry and repetitions, the architectural mirroring of events in the first half and events in the second half.” Read more...
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer: A Reading List
Jenni Nuttall, Literary Scholar
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