Narrative and Gossip in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Cartlidge, Neil.

Title
Narrative and Gossip in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Gerd Bayer and Ebbe Klitgård, eds. Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe (New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 221-34.

Description
Cartlidge investigates gossip as mundane, trivial speech in TC, in contrast to the more dangerous tradition of damaging speech invoked by Pandarus.

Alternative Title
Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Language and Word Studies