Role-Conformity and Role-Playing in Troilus, Pandarus, and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Schleburg, Florian.
Role-Conformity and Role-Playing in Troilus, Pandarus, and Criseyde
- Published
- Uwe Boker et al., eds. Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and Its Impact Through the Ages. Festschrift for Karl Heinz Goller on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004), pp. 79-93.
- Description
- The three main characters of TC "embody three widely different ways of handling the roles they want to be judged by": total identification (Troilus), total detachment (Pandarus), and acceptance with reservations (Criseyde). Although Chaucer could not have had role-playing theory in mind, he was sensitive to "what happens when three persons of so incompatible views on reality are let loose on each other."
- Alternative Title
- Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and Its Impact Through the Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.