The Testament of Cresseid

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Author: Robert Henryson ISBN: 9781619826649
Publisher: Charles River Editors Publication: February 3, 2012
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Robert Henryson
ISBN: 9781619826649
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Publication: February 3, 2012
Imprint:
Language: English

Robert Henryson was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 14601500. Counted among the Scots makars, he lived in the royal burgh of Dunfermline and is a distinctive voice in the Northern Renaissance at a time when the culture was on a cusp between medieval and renaissance sensibilities. Little is known of his life, but evidence suggests that he was a teacher who had training in law and the humanities, that he had a connection with Dunfermline Abbey and that he may also have been associated for a period with Glasgow University. The Testament of Cresseid is a narrative poem written by the Scottish makar Robert Henryson. 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 makes the poem one of the great works of northern renaissance literature.

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Robert Henryson was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 14601500. Counted among the Scots makars, he lived in the royal burgh of Dunfermline and is a distinctive voice in the Northern Renaissance at a time when the culture was on a cusp between medieval and renaissance sensibilities. Little is known of his life, but evidence suggests that he was a teacher who had training in law and the humanities, that he had a connection with Dunfermline Abbey and that he may also have been associated for a period with Glasgow University. The Testament of Cresseid is a narrative poem written by the Scottish makar Robert Henryson. 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 makes the poem one of the great works of northern renaissance literature.

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