"Good Traders in the Flesh": Pandarus and the Audience.
- Author / Editor
- Confer, Shayne.
"Good Traders in the Flesh": Pandarus and the Audience.
- Published
- Kentucky Philological Review 37 (2023): 19-25.
- Description
- Focuses on the scene of "intimacy" between Pandarus and Criseyde in TC and its excision from Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," arguing that Chaucer's expansion/embellishment of the original in Boccaccio's "Filostrato" compels the audience to identify with Pandarus and share the narrator's voyeuristic enjoyment. Shakespeare's play effects similar audience identification in Pandarus's Epilogue, implicating the audience in Pandarus's ongoing "reduction of sexuality to commodification."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion