Pandarus's 'Unthrift' and the Problem of Desire in Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert R.
Pandarus's 'Unthrift' and the Problem of Desire in Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- R. A. Shoaf, ed. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: "Subgit to alle Poesye": Essays in Criticism. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, no. 104. Pegasus Paperbacks, no. 10 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992), pp. 74-87.
- Description
- Contrasts Chaucer's depictions of desire in TC with source passages in Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and with a passage in Dante's "Purgatorio." Chaucer's depiction is based on the "impoverished" view of desire presented in Boethius's "Consolation" and "Roman de la Rose," limiting the moral and erotic range of desire in TC.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: "Subgit to alle Poesye": Essays in Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.