'Calle it Gentilesse': A Comparative Study of Two Medieval Go-Betweens
- Author / Editor
- Ellis, Deborah (S.)
'Calle it Gentilesse': A Comparative Study of Two Medieval Go-Betweens
- Published
- Comitatus 8 (1977): 1-13.
- Description
- The activities of Pandarus in TC and Celestina in Gernando de Rojas's "Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea" show the similarities in the panderer's roles and the fundamental disparities between Chaucer's and Rojas's visions. Celestina's world is decaying and insecure while Pandarus's world is more stable and secure.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.