The Awful Passion of Pandarus

Author / Editor
Rushton, Cory James.

Title
The Awful Passion of Pandarus

Published
Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton, eds. Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 147-60.

Description
Reviews scholarly criticism of TC. Argues that the effectiveness of the work is in part the result of Chaucer shaping the reader's complicity with Pandarus. Also discusses Criseyde's desirability, and the theme of sexuality in TC and LGW.

Alternative Title
Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women