Thebes, Troy, Criseyde, and Pandarus: An Instance of Chaucerian Irony.

Author / Editor
Renoir, Alain.

Title
Thebes, Troy, Criseyde, and Pandarus: An Instance of Chaucerian Irony.

Published
Studia Neophilologica 32 (1960): 14-17.

Description
Argues that medieval connections between stories of the sieges of Thebes and of Troy make the reference to Thebes at TC 2.83-84 a "masterstroke of supreme irony": directed at both Criseyde and Pandarus, the irony complicates aspects of predestination in TC and "almost nullifies the concept of time in a quasi-Boethian manner."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde