Pandarus' Cushion and the 'pluma Sardanapalli'
- Author / Editor
- Friedman, John B.
Pandarus' Cushion and the 'pluma Sardanapalli'
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 75 (1976): 41-55.
- Description
- The cushion Pandarus fetches Troilus in Book III of TC linked for Chaucer's audience "Luxuria" and "Fortuna." Juvenal, Boccaccio, and contemporary iconography associated cushions with Sardanapalus, and thence with beds and lust. The analogy of Troilus' bed with that of Boethius connected the cushion with Fortune.
- Seven illustrations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.