Chaucer's Pandarus and the Sententious Friar Lawrence

Author / Editor
Moisan, Thomas (E.)

Title
Chaucer's Pandarus and the Sententious Friar Lawrence

Published
PAPA 8.2: 38-48, 1982.

Description
Friar Lawrence of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet echoes Pandarus of TC. As rhetors, both are fond of apothegms; dramatically, each acts as a go-between; thematically, each reflects how truth escapes human efforts to capture it in fiction.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Troilus and Criseyde.