Gesture and Seduction in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Hermann, John P.

Title
Gesture and Seduction in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 7 (1985): 107-35. Reprinted in R. A. Shoaf, ed. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: "Subgit to alle Poesy: Essays in Criticism. MRTS, no. 104 (Binghamton, N. Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1994), pp. 138-60.

Description
In Pandarus's seduction of Criseyde in book 2 of TC and in Diomede's seduction of her in book 5, the gestures invite plural interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.