The Palinode, the Narrator, and Pandarus's Alleged Incest

Author / Editor
Stroud, T. A.

Title
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.