'This volume marks a significant contribution to the ongoing scrutiny of the dynamic between Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.'
Rachel Stenner, University of Sheffield, The Spenser Review, May 2016
Andrew James Johnston is Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universitat Berlin
Russell West-Pavlov is Chair of English Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the Eberhard Karls Universitat Tuebingen
Elisabeth Kempf is a graduate student at the Freie Universitat Berlin
1. Introduction Andrew James Johnston, Elisabeth Kempf and Russell West-Pavlov
2. 'No matter from the heut': passion, value and contingency in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde John Drakakis
3. Narrators, selves and the discourse of love in Troilus and Cressida, or Chaucer, Brecht and Shakespeare Ute Berns
4. Changing emotions in Troilus: the crucial year David Wallace
5. 'Expectation whirls me round': hope, fear and time in Troilus and Cressida Kai Wiegandt
6. ' Like an Olympian wrestling: the pause in Troilus and Cressida Richard Wilson
7. 'What's Hecuba to him?' Absent women and the space of lamentation in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida Hester Lees-Jeffries
8. Framing emotions in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde Elisabeth Kempf
9. Value feelings the economy and axiology of the passions in Troilus and Cressida Kathrin Bethke
10. The space of desire in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Troy Paul Strohm
11. Arrogant authorial performances: from Chaucer's Criseyde to Shakespeare's Cressida Wolfram R. Keller
12. Faces that talk: Chaucer, nature and female beauty Stephanie Trigg
13. 'Potent raisings': performing passion in Chaucer and Shakespeare. Andreas Mahler
14. 'The formless ruin of oblivion': Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and literary defacement James Simpson
15. 'Stewed phrase' and aesthetic effect in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: received wisdom and its functions in the reflection, management and performance of passion Verena Olejniczak Lobsien
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