The Testament of Cresseid
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The Testament of Cresseid is a narrative poem of 616 lines in Middle Scots, written by the 15th-century Scottish makar Robert Henryson. It is his best known poem. It imagines a tragic fate for Cressid
Henryson addressed his Testament to a readership of women. Painting by Robert Campin, 1438.
Diomede and Cressida, perhaps
Troilus and Criseyde
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Troilus and Criseyde is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the siege of Troy. It
The Testament of Cresseid
…written by the 15th-century Scottish makar Robert Henryson. It is his best known poem. It imagines a tragic fate for Cressida in the medieval story of Troilus and Criseyde which was left untold in Geoffrey Chaucer's version. Henryson's cogent psychological drama, in which he consciously resists and confronts the routine…
Geoffrey Chaucer reciting before nobles
A Scene from Troilus and Cressida Angelica Kauffmann