Some secondary reading
for Troilus and Criseyde
Relevant primary texts:
Boethius, The Consolation of
Philosophy, trans. R.F. Green.
Robert
Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid, in R.K. Gordon, ed., The Story of Troilus (1978). This also includes a translation
of Boccaccio's Il
Filostrato, Chaucer's primary source. There's a
Penguin edition of the Testament
available as well.
Selected criticism:
General:
Windeatt, Barry,
Patterson,
"Troilus and Criseyde and the Subject of History," in Lee Patterson, Chaucer and the Subject of History
(1991), 84-164.
Monica
McAlpine, The Genre of Troilus
and Criseyde (1978?)
Wetherbee, Winthrop, Chaucer
and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde (1984)
Courtly
Love:
Dodd,
"The System of Courtly Love," in Schoeck,
Richard J. and Jerome Taylor, Chaucer
Criticism, 2 vols. (1961), II, 1-15
Donaldson,
"The Myth of Courtly Love," in E.T.
Donaldson, Speaking of Chaucer
(1970)
Bloch, "'Mieux vaut jamais
que tard': Romance,
Philology, and Old French Letters,"Representations 36 (Fall 1991): 64-86
Criseyde (feminist and
not-so-feminist accounts):
Donaldson, "Criseyde and Her Narrator," in E.T. Donaldson, Speaking of Chaucer (1970)
Margherita,
"Historicity and Femininity in Chaucer's Troilus,"
ch. 4 of
Aers, "Masculine Identity in the Courtly Community,"
in David Aers, Community, Gender, and Individual Identity (1988),
117-52.
Dinshaw, "
Donald
R. Howard, "Experience, Language, and Consciousness: Troilus and Criseyde, II, 596-931," in Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies: Essays in Honor of Francis
Lee Utley, ed. Jerome Mandel and Bruce A. Rosenberg (Rutgers U.P, 1970):
173-92, 362-3.
Stephen
Knight, Geoffrey Chaucer (1986), chapter
on C.
End
of the Poem / Philosophical Issues:
Robertson,
"Chaucerian Tragedy," in Schoeck, Chaucer Criticism, II, 86-121, or ELH XIX (1953): 1-37
Grady,
"The Boethian Reader of Troilus and Criseyde" Chaucer
Review 33 (2000)
Morton
W. Bloomfield, "Distance and Predestination in Troilus and Criseyde," in Schoek
& Taylor II
Donaldson,
"The Ending of Troilus," in E.T. Donaldson, Speaking of Chaucer (1970)
Fleming,
John. Classical Imitation and Interpretation in Chaucer's Troilus (1990)
Excellent
bibliography on this topic in the notes to Matthew Giancarlo, “The Structure of
Fate and the Devising of History in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde,” SAC 26 (2004)