Making a Play for Criseyde: The Staging of Pandarus's House in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Brody, Saul N[athaniel].
Making a Play for Criseyde: The Staging of Pandarus's House in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Speculum 73 (1998): 115-40.
- Description
- Assesses Pandarus's house and its literary functions in light of architectural details of fourteenth-century houses such as the "privy," "stewe," and "trappe" and in relation to conventions of medieval dramatic staging. Pandarus, leading Troilus through the trap, may be reminiscent of stage devils emerging from hell. Pandarus acts as director and author of the scene, while Criseyde serves as the audience.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.