Pandarus as Lover: 'A Joly Wo' or 'Loves Shotes Keene'?
- Author / Editor
- Rutherford, Charles S.
Pandarus as Lover: 'A Joly Wo' or 'Loves Shotes Keene'?
- Published
- Annuale Mediaevale 13 (1972): 5-13.
- Description
- Characterizes Pandarus as "a public figure, a chameleon, a consummate actor" who plays various roles, including that of "unrequited lover." His unusual moment of private lovesickness at the beginning of Book 2 is Chaucer's device for underscoring the power of love in the poem and bridging the "serialized narrative" of the five-book structure of TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde