Chivalry and Privacy in Troilus and Criseyde and La Chastelaine de Vergy
- Author / Editor
- Guthrie, Steven R.
Chivalry and Privacy in Troilus and Criseyde and La Chastelaine de Vergy
- Published
- Chaucer Review 34: 150-73, 1999.
- Description
- The key to the character of Pandarus lies in French domestic romances, especially their concern with privacy. Both TC and "La Chastelaine" portray lovers as vulnerable human beings who have the right to freedom from invasive forces. Pandarus's intrusion into the lovers' circle propels the poem into the "unfamiliar ethical territory of individual rights."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.