MDVL 410

Spring 2013

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Jan 14-May 1
Medieval British Literatures
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52275
Lecture-Discussion
1G
11:00AM -11:50AM
MWF
329 Davenport Hall
Camargo, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/14/13-05/01/13
Credit:
4 hours
Section Info:
TOPIC: Troilus and Criseyde: Love and Loss in Medieval Troy Dramatically set in the midst of the Trojan War, the story of the tragic love affair between the Trojan prince Troilus, youngest son of Priam and Hecuba, and the beautiful young Trojan widow Criseyde, daughter of the turncoat priest Calchas, was told and retold for more than five hundred years. A minor character in the ancient sources, Troilus was transformed into a romance hero by the twelfth-century French writer Beno�t de Sainte-Maure. His exploits as warrior and lover were recounted in the thirteenth-century Latin history of the Trojan War by Guido de Columnis, and in the following century he became the hero of his own poem, written in Italian by Giovanni Boccaccio. Boccaccio?s work was the major source for Chaucer?s version of the story, which was considered Chaucer?s masterpiece during his lifetime and for centuries afterward. The Scots poet Robert Henryson even wrote a sequel to complete Criseyde?s part of the story. William Shakespeare recast Chaucer?s narrative still more radically as a play, which John Dryden subsequently reshaped into a proper neoclassical tragedy with Cressida as tragic heroine. We will read all of these versions--those by Beno�t, Guido, and Boccaccio in modern English translations, the others in the original English?but will focus especially on the brilliant treatments of the story by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Prominent topics of discussion will include the characterization of Criseyde and the issue of female desire, the relationship between public and private history, and the changing conceptions of tragedy.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
52274
Lecture-Discussion
1U
11:00AM -11:50AM
MWF
329 Davenport Hall
Camargo, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/14/13-05/01/13
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
TOPIC: Troilus and Criseyde: Love and Loss in Medieval Troy Dramatically set in the midst of the Trojan War, the story of the tragic love affair between the Trojan prince Troilus, youngest son of Priam and Hecuba, and the beautiful young Trojan widow Criseyde, daughter of the turncoat priest Calchas, was told and retold for more than five hundred years. A minor character in the ancient sources, Troilus was transformed into a romance hero by the twelfth-century French writer Beno�t de Sainte-Maure. His exploits as warrior and lover were recounted in the thirteenth-century Latin history of the Trojan War by Guido de Columnis, and in the following century he became the hero of his own poem, written in Italian by Giovanni Boccaccio. Boccaccio?s work was the major source for Chaucer?s version of the story, which was considered Chaucer?s masterpiece during his lifetime and for centuries afterward. The Scots poet Robert Henryson even wrote a sequel to complete Criseyde?s part of the story. William Shakespeare recast Chaucer?s narrative still more radically as a play, which John Dryden subsequently reshaped into a proper neoclassical tragedy with Cressida as tragic heroine. We will read all of these versions--those by Beno�t, Guido, and Boccaccio in modern English translations, the others in the original English?but will focus especially on the brilliant treatments of the story by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Prominent topics of discussion will include the characterization of Criseyde and the issue of female desire, the relationship between public and private history, and the changing conceptions of tragedy.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
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