Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare

Andrew James Johnston is Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universität BerlinRussell West-Pavlov is Chair of English – Anglophone Literatures and Cultures – at the Eberhard Karls Universität TuebingenElisabeth Kempf is a graduate student at the Freie Universität Berlin

• 1. Introduction – Andrew James Johnston, Elisabeth Kempf and Russell West-Pavlov2. 'No matter from the heut': passion, value and contingency in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde – John Drakakis3. Narrators, selves and the discourse of love in Troilus and Cressida, or Chaucer, Brecht and Shakespeare – Ute Berns 4. Changing emotions in Troilus: the crucial year – David Wallace5. 'Expectation whirls me round': hope, fear and time in Troilus and Cressida – Kai Wiegandt6. ' Like an Olympian wrestling: the pause in Troilus and Cressida – Richard Wilson7. 'What's Hecuba to him?' Absent women and the space of lamentation in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida – Hester Lees-Jeffries 8. Framing emotions in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde – Elisabeth Kempf9. Value feelings – the economy and axiology of the passions in Troilus and Cressida – Kathrin Bethke10. The space of desire in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Troy – Paul Strohm 11. Arrogant authorial performances: from Chaucer's Criseyde to Shakespeare's Cressida – Wolfram R. Keller 12. Faces that talk: Chaucer, nature and female beauty – Stephanie Trigg 13. 'Potent raisings': performing passion in Chaucer and Shakespeare. – Andreas Mahler 14. 'The formless ruin of oblivion': Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and literary defacement – James Simpson 15. 'Stewed phrase' and aesthetic effect in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: received wisdom and its functions in the reflection, management and performance of passion – Verena Olejniczak Lobsien Index

'This volume marks a significant contribution to the ongoing scrutiny of the dynamic between Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.'Rachel Stenner, University of Sheffield, The Spenser Review, May 2016