ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Troilus and Criseyde (circa 1380-87) is Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic poem in rhyme royal (rime royale, seven line stanzas rhyming ababbcc) re-telling the tragic love story of Troilus, a Trojan prince, and Criseyde. Scholarly consensus is that Chaucer completed Troilus and Criseyde by the mid 1380’s.

Detailed explanation-2: -Troilus and Criseyde (circa 1380-87) is Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic poem in rhyme royal (rime royale, seven line stanzas rhyming ababbcc) re-telling the tragic love story of Troilus, a Trojan prince, and Criseyde. Scholarly consensus is that Chaucer completed Troilus and Criseyde by the mid 1380’s.

Detailed explanation-3: -Although Troilus is a character from Ancient Greek literature, the expanded story of him as a lover was of Medieval origin. The first known version is from Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s poem Roman de Troie, but Chaucer’s principal source appears to have been Boccaccio, who re-wrote the tale in his Il Filostrato.

Detailed explanation-4: -Troilus and Criseyde is a poem written by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1385 in his native Middle English. Set in Troy during the Trojan war, the plot follows the prince and knight Troilus after he is struck by Cupid’s arrow and falls in love with Criseyde, daughter of the prophet Calchas.