The Crisis of Mediation in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Hanning, Robert W.

Title
The Crisis of Mediation in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, and Sylvia Tomasch, eds. The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 143-59.

Description
In TC, the narrator and Pandarus are mediators--purveyors of desired commodities (women or love stories) to a designated recipient (Troilus; the audience assembled for the occasion). Hanning examines the "crisis of mediation" of late-medieval translators in relation to the poem's problematic presentation of desire.

Alternative Title
The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.