Pandarus, Poetry, and Healing
- Author / Editor
- Wack, Mary.
Pandarus, Poetry, and Healing
- Published
- John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987), pp. 127-33.
- Description
- The language of love as illness is a significant Chaucerian addition to his source, the "Filostrato." In Pandarus's first conversation with Troilus, allusions to Boethius and Ovid "define the depth and complexity of Pandarus's role as physician," since both authors use medical metaphors. Chaucer "measures the curative powers of poetry against the medicines of philosophy, Ovidian oblivion against Boethian remembrance." Medical discourse is inadequate to respond to the fullness of love.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2 (1986)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.