A Contribution to the Thirteenth Labour: Purging the 'Troilus' of Incest

Author / Editor
apRoberts, Robert P.

Title
A Contribution to the Thirteenth Labour: Purging the 'Troilus' of Incest

Published
J. Bakker et al., eds.; J. C. van Meurs, foreword. Essays on English and American Literature and a Sheaf of Poems (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987), pp. 11-25.

Description
Neither linguistic nor contextual evidence justifies the stance that Criseyde and Pandarus have sexual intercourse. Incest is incompatible both with the Italian source and with other elements in the poem itself.

Contributor
Bakker, J.,ed.

Alternative Title
Essays on English and American Literature and a Sheaf of Poems.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.