'Calle it Gentilesse': A Comparative Study of Two Medieval Go-Betweens

Author / Editor
Ellis, Deborah (S.)

Title
'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.