'Wordes White': Disingenuity in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Stokes, Myra.
'Wordes White': Disingenuity in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- English Studies 64 (1983): 18-29.
- Description
- Language is used to reveal or conceal. Warping his own beliefs, Pandarus in his speech redefines or avoids moral issues; duplicitous Diomede thinks like Pandarus, speaks like Troilus; Troilus's speech is forthright, literal; Criseyde is capable of jokes, mock seriousness, ambiguity, deliberate pretense.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.