Chaucer's Pandarus and the Medieval Ideal of Friendship
- Author / Editor
- Cook, Robert G.
Chaucer's Pandarus and the Medieval Ideal of Friendship
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 69 (1970): 425-36.
- Description
- Surveys medieval ideals of friendship and their classical and biblical roots, arguing that Chaucer presents a double view in his presentation of Pandarus's friendship for Troilus: "both the world's notion of what a friend is and the moralist's notion of what a friend is not." Discusses Chaucer's adjustments to Boccaccio's depiction of the friendship, and suggests that his double view results from the doubleness of Chaucer's narrative perspective.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations