A Contribution to the Thirteenth Labour: Purging the 'Troilus' of Incest
- Author / Editor
- apRoberts, Robert P.
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.