How Old is Chaucer's Pandarus?

Author / Editor
Slocum, Sally K.

Title
How Old is Chaucer's Pandarus?

Published
Philological Quarterly 58 (1979): 16-25.

Description
Evidence suggests Pandarus is a peer to Troilus and hardly older than Criseyde, probably around thirty. The younger age eliminates harsh judgments on his involvement in their love affair and on behavior deemed lecherous in an older man.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.