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Love, history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare

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Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction: performing the politics of passion: Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida and the literary tradition of love and history: Andrew James Johnston and Russell West-Pavlov

1 ‘Expectation whirls me round’:hope, fear and time in Troilus and Cressida: Kai Wiegandt

2 ‘Potent raisings’:performing passion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: Andreas Mahler

3 The space of desire in Chaucer’s and Shakespeare’s Troy: Paul Strohm

4 What’s Hecuba to him? Absence, silence and lament in Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida: Hester Lees-Jeffries

5 Remembering to forget inShakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida:narrative palimpsestsand moribund epochalities: Russell West-Pavlov

6 ‘Language in her eye’:the expressive face of Criseyde/Cressida: Stephanie Trigg

7 The presence of Troilus and Cressida: Shakespeare’s refurbishment of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde: John Drakakis

8 ‘Stewed phrase’ and the impassioned imagination in Shakespeare’sTroilus and Cressida: Verena Olejniczak Lobsien

9 Arrogant authorial performances:Criseyde to Cressida: Wolfram R. Keller

10 Changing emotions in Troilus:the crucial year: David Wallace

11 Gendered books:reading, space and intimacy inChaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde: Andrew James Johnston

12 ‘The formless ruin of oblivion’: Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida and literary defacement: James Simpson

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