Chaucer and 'Stewart's' Pandarus and the Critics
- Author / Editor
- Schibanoff, Susan.
Chaucer and 'Stewart's' Pandarus and the Critics
- Published
- Studies in Scottish Literature 13 (1979): 92-99.
- Description
- Although Pandarus did not appear in literature until Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato," 1336, by 1440 his name had degenerated into a common noun in English. This rapid development argues against the dualism and complexity modern critics find in him. The complicated Pandarus first appears in a poem by William(?) Stewart written in 1568 to parallel Henryson's "Testament."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.