Pandarus and Troilus's Bromance: Male Bonding, Sodomy, and Incest in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Sévère, Richard.

Title
Pandarus and Troilus's Bromance: Male Bonding, Sodomy, and Incest in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 60 (2018): 423-42.

Description
Clarifies the meanings and applications of the term "bromance" and applies it to Troilus and Pandarus's relationship in TC, "wherein an incestuous act between Pandarus and Criseyde is among the many ways the poem utilizes heterosexuality to counter the homoerotic implications between the two men."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde