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Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde
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0:00:12 - Troilus and Criseyde; 0:00:46 - Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde Summary; 0:05:23 Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Summary • Summary of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare and Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer. While Shakespeare took Chaucer's epic poem Troilus and Criseyde as a source for his own play, he also took inspirations from Lydgate's Troy Book. Also, Shakespeare's sources included George Chapman's translation of Iliad and Caxton’s translation of Recuyell of The Historyes of Troy. • Geoffrey Chaucer on the other hand took inspirations from Boccaccio's II Filosrato. While Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is his most famous work, critics often suggest that Troilus and Criseyde is Chaucer's best complete work while The Canterbury Tales remained incomplete as he died before completing it. Chaucer wrote Troilus and Criseyde in 1980 while Shakespeare produced his drama Troilus and Crisseda in 1602. • Shakespeare's drama contains the tragic love story of Troilus and Cressida but it is more about the end of the Trojan war. The drama is set in the timeline between Achilles' refusal to battle and Hector's death. • The main characters include Achilles, the Greek warrior, Antenor, a soldier held captive by the Greeks, Calchas, a soothsayer and father of Criseyde, Diomede, a Greek who woos Criseyde at her father’s behest, Helen, wife of Menelaus, lover of Prince Paris, Pandarus, uncle of Criseyde, a supporter of Troilus, Priam, king of Troy, Cassandra, daughter of Priam, a prophetess, a worshipper of Apollo, Hector, fierce Trojan warrior, eldest son of King Priam, Troilus, youngest son of King Priam, lover of Criseyde, brother of Hector and Paris. Dephiobus, the third son of King Priam. • We have offered the summary of Chaucer's poem Troilus and Criseyde and salient points of Shakespeare's drama Troilus and Cressida in accordance with the course for ugc net english literature exam. • “All Good Things Must Come to an End.” The source of this phrase was Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde!
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