Complicity and Responsibility in Pandarus' Bed and Chaucer's Art
- Author / Editor
- Carton, Evan.
Complicity and Responsibility in Pandarus' Bed and Chaucer's Art
- Published
- PMLA 94 (1979): 47-61.
- Description
- Chaucer's illustrates the reciprocity of hearing and speaking by demonstrating how perfectly the characters of TC understand each other's indirectly spoken meanings. The reader's complicity in this implit communication is stressed particularly in the narrator's intimation of incest between Pandarus and Criseyde directly after her first night with Troilus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.