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Advanced seminar
SoSe 22: HS-Medieval English Literatures: Troy: Chaucer to Shakespeare
Wolfram Keller
Comments
Stories about the Trojan War became increasingly popular in the English vernacular towards the end of the fourteenth-century. For late-medieval audiences, such narratives were not literary treatments of a (fictional) historical event, but were part of history, of national history: London was seen as a ‘new Troy’. In this seminar, we shall look at one specific episode from the Troy story that became particularly popular in late medieval and early modern England and Scotland: the tragic love story of Troilus and Criseyde. In order to do so, we shall read and discuss Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Robert Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid, and William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. A list of resources and recommended editions shall be available by the beginning of the semester. close
12 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2022-04-25 08:00 - 10:00
Mon, 2022-05-02 08:00 - 10:00
Mon, 2022-05-09 08:00 - 10:00
Mon, 2022-05-16 08:00 - 10:00
Mon, 2022-05-23 08:00 - 10:00
Mon, 2022-05-30 08:00 - 10:00
Mon, 2022-06-13 08:00 - 10:00
Mon, 2022-06-20 08:00 - 10:00
Mon, 2022-06-27 08:00 - 10:00
Mon, 2022-07-04 08:00 - 10:00
Mon, 2022-07-11 08:00 - 10:00
Mon, 2022-07-18 08:00 - 10:00