'Al That Which Chargeth Nought to Seye': The Theme of Incest in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Fehrenbacher, Richard W.

Title
'Al That Which Chargeth Nought to Seye': The Theme of Incest in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Exemplaria 9 (1997): 341-69.

Description
Readers who refuse to recognize Pandarus's incestuous desire risk participating in the denial of such desire in patriarchal societies; they also risk colluding in society's invocation of the incest taboo, which underlies traffic in women.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.