Advice Without Consent in Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Guidry, Marc.

Title
Advice Without Consent in Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales

Published
Scott D. Troyan, ed. Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook (New York and London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 127-45.

Description
In TC, "Chaucer explores the cultural function of counsel as a key mode of power distribution in chivalric society," examining Pandarus's advice, Criseyde's impersonations of him, and parallels between personal counsel and the Trojan Parliament.
In both TC and CT, Chaucer depicts the effects of male counsel on female agency, showing that both Criseyde and the Wife of Bath attempt to appropriate traditional discourse of counsel.

Alternative Title
Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.