Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables

Robert Henryson

RRP: £12.99

Publisher: FABER & FABER

Publication Date : 04/06/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A new translation by Seamus Heaney of the classic poem set in the aftermath of the Trojan War.

Publisher's description:

Presents the narrative "Testament" of Cresseid that was set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde", offering a grim and tragic account of its faithless heroine's rejection by her lover Diomede, and her decline into prostitution and leprosy.

ISBN: 9780571249282