The Palinode, the Narrator, and Pandarus's Alleged Incest
- Author / Editor
- Stroud, T. A.
The Palinode, the Narrator, and Pandarus's Alleged Incest
- Published
- Chaucer Review 27 (1992): 16-30.
- Description
- Pandarus does not commit incest with Criseyde. Chaucer's contemporaries would not have allowed it, and the text itself, while titillating, does not admit of it. One discerns the narrator expressing his own involvement with the heroine, but there is no indication that Pandarus shares the narrator's lust.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.