Pandarus and the Fate of Tantalus

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl.

Title
Pandarus and the Fate of Tantalus

Published
Orbis Litterarum 24 (1969): 3-15.

Description
Sketches the obscurities of Pandarus's character and motivations in TC, and, examining patterns of imagery and allusion, argues that he is both a voyeur and a Tantalus-figure whose "punishment [is] to endure for ever the agonies of unfulfilled anticipation."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Style and Versification