Restraining Ambiguities in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Levine, Robert.

Title
Restraining Ambiguities in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Neuphilolgische Mitteilungen 87 (1986): 558-64.

Description
The allusion to Thesiphone (TC 1.6) may resonate with passages in Statius and Boccaccio that connect the Fury with "discordant, perverse, sterile, potentially demonic sexuality" (p. 561). The allusion in TC links Criseyde's possible childlessness with "sterile love" but should not push readers to assume a sexual encounter between Criseyde and Pandarus.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.