Pandarus a Devil?

Author / Editor
D'Evelyn, Charlotte.

Title
Pandarus a Devil?

Published
PMLA 71(1956): 275-79.

Description
Considers manuscripts, editions, translations, and contemporary examples to explore Troilus's use of "devel" in TC 1.623, documenting variety in reading it as direct address, expletive, or exclamation. Shows that Troilus is not calling Pandarus a devil despite D. W. Robertson's ascertain that he was.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Language and Word Studies
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations