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Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde.(Editions of texts)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Barry Windeatt, Penguin Classics (London: Penguin, 2003). lxx + 561 pp. ISBN 0-140-424210. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. To see Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde printed as a Penguin Classic is pleasing not only for the evident popular assertion of Chaucer's excellence hut also for the material reminder the volume provides of the readability of this great romance, and its status as a predecessor of the novel. Barry Windeatt's edition characteristically combines approachability with scholarly care and precision. The original text is presented, ...

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