"Withinne a paved parlour": Criseyde and Domestic Reading in a City under Siege.
- Author / Editor
- Coleman, Joyce.
"Withinne a paved parlour": Criseyde and Domestic Reading in a City under Siege.
- Published
- Martin Chase and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds. Reading and Writing in Medieval England: Essays in Honor of Mary C. Erler (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2019), pp. 9-38.
- Description
- Explicates the scene of Pandarus's interruption of Criseyde's reading group (TC,
II.85ff.), attending to its intertextualities, the implications of its setting in a paved "secular parlor," the nature of the female aristocratic readers, and Pandarus's entry into the group as a "sexual/texual predator" and as Chaucer’s "alter-ego." Includes significant attention to Elizabeth de Burgh for the ways she may have influenced Chaucer's knowledge of "elite female readers."
- Contributor
- Chase, Martin, ed.
Kowaleski, Maryanne, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Reading and Writing in Medieval England: Essays in Honor of Mary C. Erler
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Life