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Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics) Troilus and Criseyde (Reprint Edition) by Geoffrey (Translated By Nevill Coghill) Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translator), Neville . Translator) Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1971 ISBN-10: 0-14-044239-1 / 0140442391 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044239-7 / 9780140442397 Chaucer s longest complete poem is the supreme evocation of doomed courtly love in medieval English literature Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy the poem relates how Troilus with the help of Criseyde s wily uncle Pandarus persuades her to become his lover only to be betrayed when she is |