During the great siege of Troy, Troilus, the son of Priam, sees Criseyde and falls in love with her. Later, with the help Pandarus- one of the first great character studies in our literature-Troilus wins her love, only to be betrayed. Chaucers depiction of passionate sexual love, his grasp of tragedy, and his sense of the ridiculous hidden in the ...more
A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. “An authentic modern masterpiece” (New York Post). “Eliot really does portray real-seeming characters. He cuts down his poetic effects to the minimum, and then finally rewards us with most beautiful poetry” (Stephen Spender).
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Ever since William Caxton printed his editions of The Canterbury Tales at the end of the fifteenth century, Chaucer's masterpiece has been a bestseller and it has now sold more copies than any other work in English literature except the Bible. This new edition takes the complete text of Nevill Coghill's long-established translation and illustrates ...more