Restraining Ambiguities in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Levine, Robert.
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.