The Consolation of Pandarus

Author / Editor
Camargo, Martin.

Title
The Consolation of Pandarus

Published
Chaucer Review 25 (1991): 214-28.

Description
Chaucer's Pandarus is based to a certain extent on the character of Philosophy in Boethius's Consolation, and his Troilus resembles Boethius. Troilus's change during the poem can be attributed to the fact that "he has experienced the consolation of Pandarus."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.