II.85ff.), attending to its intertextualities, the implications of its setting in a paved "secular parlor," the nature of the female aristocratic readers, and Pandarus's entry into the group as a "sexual/texual predator" and as Chaucer's "alter-ego." Includes significant attention to Elizabeth de Burgh for the ways she may have influenced Chaucer's knowledge of "elite female readers."]]> a refraction of "the city of Troy's self-interested politics."]]>