Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Troy
Dienstag, 02.12.2025
This seminar explores two related meditations on love, war, and betrayal: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. Reading Chaucer’s poem ‘backwards’ through Shakespeare’s dramatic adaptation, the course introduces students to adaptation studies, while also drawing on intertextuality, genre theory and gender criticism, to interrogate how this story of two Trojan lovers is reimagined. We’ll analyse how Shakespeare ‘hits’ his medieval source: How does his Troilus and Cressida speak to or against Chaucer-the-narrator’s voice? What happens with the genre switch? What changes in Criseyde/Cressida’s role and agency in this male-dominated wartime world? And how do both works, individually and together, reshape the Trojan myth? Required Reading: We will work with Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde in The Riverside Chaucer (ed. Larry D. Benson, 3rd ed., 1987), alongside Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida in the Arden Shakespeare Third Series (ed. David Bevington, 1998). Online alternatives for both texts are available and will be linked on Ilias before term start.
| Veranstaltungsart: | Vorlesung/Seminar |
|---|---|
| Dozierende(r): | Dr. Nicole Andrea Nyffenegger |
| 02.12.2025: | 14:15 - 16:00 |
| Ort: |
Unitobler Lerchenweg 36 3012 Bern 1. UG, F-106 |
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