"From Pandaro to Pandarus: Sexuality and Power in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'."
- Author / Editor
- North, Richard.
"From Pandaro to Pandarus: Sexuality and Power in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'."
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Emilia Di Rocco, eds. Boccaccio and the European Literary Tradition (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2014), pp. 123-38.
- Description
- Compares Chaucer's Pandarus with Boccaccio's Pandaro, arguing that "that Pandarus so loves Troilus that he consummates his passion vicariously on Criseyde, telling lies which kill the affair before the lady leaves Troy." The "cues" for this characterization "all lie in" the "Filostrato," but the "darkness" of Pandarus "is a product of Chaucer's London."
- Contributor
- Boitani, Piero, ed.
Di Rocco, Emilia, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Boccaccio and the European Literary Tradition
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
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