Chaucer's Playful Pandarus

Author / Editor
Braddy, Haldeen.

Title
Chaucer's Playful Pandarus

Published
Southern Folklore Quarterly 34 (1970): 71-81.

Description
Explores the sexual connotations of "deth" (death) in TC (3.63 and 1577), both instances helping to characterize Pandarus as unscrupulous and the latter encouraging us to see incestuous relations between Pandarus and Criseyde.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Language and Word Studies