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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...
- Cressida (/ˈkrɛsɪdə/; also Criseida, Cresseid or Criseyde) is a character who appears in many Medieval and Renaissance retellings of the story of the Trojan...
- 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:...
- 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)...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Until Proved Innocent (2009), Dina Geoffrey ChaucerTroilus and Criseyde (2009), Criseyde (dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw) This Repulsive Woman (2010),...
- Chaucer reciting Troilus and Criseyde: early-15th-century m****cript of the work at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge...