Educating Reader: Chaucer's Use of Proverbs in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Hall, Ann C.
Educating Reader: Chaucer's Use of Proverbs in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Proverbium 3 (1986): 47-58.
- Description
- Chaucer uses "ingenu" irony (Muecke's term) in TC. Pandarus, the most prodigious user of proverbs, demonstrates the illusiveness and unreliability of proverbs. For all his proverbial wisdom, Pandarus, like the narrator, is inept in love. Proverbs provide a safety net to deflect blame from both, and to protect the characters from audience disapproval.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.