Friedman, John B.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 75 (1976): 41-55.
The cushion Pandarus fetches Troilus in Book III of TC linked for Chaucer's audience "Luxuria" and "Fortuna." Juvenal, Boccaccio, and contemporary iconography associated cushions with Sardanapalus, and thence with beds and lust. The analogy of…
As a figure of the writer, Pandarus embodies the perverse nature of artist as observer. Having completed his narrative in the consummation scene, Pandarus must invent another tale to make "wommen unto men to comen" and to survive as an author.
Wack, Mary.
John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987), pp. 127-33.
The language of love as illness is a significant Chaucerian addition to his source, the "Filostrato." In Pandarus's first conversation with Troilus, allusions to Boethius and Ovid "define the depth and complexity of Pandarus's role as physician,"…
Rutherford, Charles S.
Annuale Mediaevale 13 (1972): 5-13.
Characterizes Pandarus as "a public figure, a chameleon, a consummate actor" who plays various roles, including that of "unrequited lover." His unusual moment of private lovesickness at the beginning of Book 2 is Chaucer's device for underscoring the…
Sévère, Richard.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 60 (2018): 423-42.
Clarifies the meanings and applications of the term "bromance" and applies it to Troilus and Pandarus's relationship in TC, "wherein an incestuous act between Pandarus and Criseyde is among the many ways the poem utilizes heterosexuality to counter…
Sketches the obscurities of Pandarus's character and motivations in TC, and, examining patterns of imagery and allusion, argues that he is both a voyeur and a Tantalus-figure whose "punishment [is] to endure for ever the agonies of unfulfilled…
Miller, Ralph N.
Studies in Medieval Culture 7.2 (1964): 65-68.
Explores why Chaucer alludes to the "story of Procne and Philomena" at the awakening of Pandarus in Book 2 of TC even though he does not cite the tale when the "nightingale sings to Criseyde" later in the Book, commenting on readers' expectations and…
Lozowski, Przemyslaw.
A. Pajdzinska and P. Krzyzanowski, eds. Przeszlosc w jezykowym obrazie swiata (Past in the Linguistic Picture of the World). (Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej, 1999), pp. 25-50.
Cognitive linguistic analysis of Chaucer's uses of "meten" and "dremen," arguing that the two words are not synonymous as is usually assumed. In Polish.
Wheeler, Jeffrey Matthew.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3043A
Although false relics often figured in polemics, relics were popular through the early Reformation. Attitudes vary less than has been assumed among such writers as Guibert de Nogent, Lorenzo Valla, Wycliffe, Chaucer, Foxe, Latimer, Tyndale, and…
Matsuda, Takami.
Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature 32 (2017): 1-15.
Points out that a reference to a palmer in GP recalls both the pilgrimage for one's own penance and the vicarious pilgrimage. Argues that the system of pardon and vicarious pilgrimage are burlesqued in PardPT and SumT. Suggests that the idea of…
Orr, Patricia R.
Jane Chance, ed. The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1990), pp.159-76.
Traces the allegorical tradition of the Judgment of Paris from Fulgentius through Bersuire and other fourteenth-century writers (especially sources of the Troilus story) and examines Chaucer's use of and allusions to the myth. The journey of Troilus…
Explains palindromes and palindromic structures, rooted in classical and exegetical traditions, here exemplified by means of Augustine of Dacia's couplet. Then argues that PardT "features palinodromically arranged characters, settings, and words that…
Carruthers, Leo, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
This collection dedicated to André Crépin contains an introduction and eleven essays on different aspects of palimpsests, both in the technical and literary senses of the word. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Palimpsests and…
Aloni, Gila.
Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds. Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England (New York: Plagrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 157-73..
Chaucer rewrites his source in Ovid "Metamaphorses" 6 to show the strong bond between the sisters who provide solace to each other. The same kind of bond is shown among the women who support the raped maiden in the WBT. The meaning of rape in…
Ramsey, Roy Vance.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 8 (1986): 107-44.
New manuscript data reaffirm Ramsey's earlier argument that different scribes copied the Hengwrt and Ellesmere MSS of CT; M. L. Samuels is wrong in arguing that a single scribe copied these manuscripts and MS Corpus Christi 198. Handwriting alone is…
Dinshaw, Carolyn.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23: 19-41, 2001.
Dinshaw considers her autobiographical "queer diasporic experience" as a "pale Indian" in light of the representations of conversion, otherness, and paleness in MLT and the generally unnoticed presence of Indian influences on early English studies.…
Green, Richard Firth.
Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington, eds. The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England (New York: Cornell University Press, 2002), pp. 105-14.
Legal diction and references in KnT reflect concern in the 1380s with the growing influence of the Court of Chivalry and the revival of trial by battle.
Passmore, S. Elizabeth.
Medieval Feminist Forum 36: 36-40, 2003.
Passmore discusses three examples of "written women," whose stories are "filtered through the impressions and words of a male writer." The Wife of Bath's question about who painted the lion (WBP 3.692) indicates that women's writings, if unmediated…
Passmore, S. Elizabeth
Medieval Feminist Forum 36: 36-40, 2003.
Passmore discusses three examples of "written women," whose stories are "filtered through the impressions and words of a male writer." The Wife of Bath's question about who painted the lion (WBP 3.692) indicates that women's writings, if unmediated…
Liendo, Elizabeth.
Ph.D. dissertation (Pennsylvania State University, 2019). Item not seen. Abstract available at https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16973eah27 (accessed December 1, 2021).
Argues that Ovidian influence on "the literary fantasy of erotic and poetic mastery" draws on a "model established in Ovid's 'Amores'," tracing “a "shared heritage" ranging from Andreas Capellanus, Chrétien de Troyes, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Ronsard…
Salda, Michael Norman.
Chaucer Review 27 (1992): 111-25.
The inspiration for the text of the painted chamber with its "text and gloss" in BD was St. Stephen's chapel with its lavishly painted walls. Previous efforts to correlate Chaucer's text with particular illuminated manuscripts have been futile.
Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2001.
Applying Habermas's notion of discourse ethics, Schildgen focuses on stories in CT that are "set outside a Christian-dominated world." Individual chapters include discussions of KnT and SqT, MLT, WBT and FranT, PrT and MkT, and SNT. Chaucer's…
Marenbon, John.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Examines the influence of paganism on Christian writers from the fifth century to the eighteenth century. Includes a chapter on entitled "Langland and Chaucer: The Continuity of the Problem of Paganism" (pp. 214–34).
