Pandarus: Process and Pleasure in Artistic Creativity

Author / Editor
Giunta, Edvige.

Title
Pandarus: Process and Pleasure in Artistic Creativity

Published
Medieval Perspectives 6 (1991): 171-77.

Description
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.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.