Troilus in the Gutter
- Author / Editor
- Robins, William.
Troilus in the Gutter
- Published
- Robert Epstein and William Robins, eds. Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming (Buffalo, N. Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp. 91112.
- Description
- Reads "goter, by a pryve wente" (TC 3.787) literally--a passageway that passes a latrine--and comments on the poetic functions of Troilus's approaching Criseyde's bedroom by this means. The passage characterizes Pandarus's house as up-to-date and aligns Troilus with sexual idolatry.
- Alternative Title
- Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.