Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, Troilus and Criseyde will always be united: a pair of lovers whose names are inseparable from passion and tragedy. Chaucer's treatment of their story has been prized for centuries as his supreme achievement. The tale of how the couple discover love and how Criseyde abandons Troilus for Diomede after her departure from Troy is dramatically presented in all its comedy and tragic pathos. With its deep humanity and penetrating insight, Troilus and Criseyde is now recognized as one of the finest narrative poems in the English language.
