The Crisis of Mediation in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Hanning, Robert W.
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.