Pandarus's 'Haselwode': A Comparative Approach to a Chaucerian Puzzle
- Author / Editor
- Wentersdorf, Karl P.
Pandarus's 'Haselwode': A Comparative Approach to a Chaucerian Puzzle
- Published
- Studies in Philology 89 (1992): 293-313.
- Description
- "Hazel" imagery in medieval and Renaissance literature suggests a meaning for Chaucer's "haselwode" quite different from the traditional interpretations--one rooted in poetic convention (erotic imagery) and social custom (going a-nutting).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.