Chaucer's Pandarus and Jean Brasdefer's 'Houdee'

Author / Editor
Mieszkowski, Gretchen.

Title
Chaucer's Pandarus and Jean Brasdefer's 'Houdee'

Published
Chaucer Review 20 (1985): 40-60.

Description
In Brasdefer's "Pamphile et Galatee" appears Houdee, a professional go-between. Possibly Chaucer used Houdee as a basis for his Pandarus in TC, thus providing the earthy undercurrent beneath the Boccaccio source.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.