Who Were Troilus, Criseyde, and Pandarus?
- Author / Editor
- Williams, George G.
Who Were Troilus, Criseyde, and Pandarus?
- Published
- Rice Institute Pamphlet 44, no. 1 (1957): 126-46.
- Description
- Argues that the "chief characters" of TC "were probably modeled from real people" and, exploring alterations from Boccaccio's "Filostrato," speculates that Troilus is based on John of Gaunt, Criseyde on Katherine Swynford, and Pandarus on Chaucer himself. Also suggests that aspects of the epilogue to TC were based on lines from Dante's "Paradiso"--the last twenty of XXV and the first sixty-six of XXVI.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer's Life
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations