MEDIEVAL GO-BETWEENS AND CHAUCER'S PANDARUS

MEDIEVAL GO-BETWEENS AND CHAUCER'S PANDARUS

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"This book offers a portrayal of two contrasting figures who bring couples together for romantic love or sex: elegant aristocrats who serve idealized consensual lovers, and ancient crones who capture women for a price. Via a sweeping tour of 45 medieval works from three centuries - Latin comedies, fabliaux, romances, the Roman de la rose, the Book of Good Love, and many others - Mieszkowski reveals a previously unsuspected dimension of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. An idealized go-between in every outward respect, Pandarus nevertheless acts the part of a go-between for sexual conquest, trapping the woman for the man. Through Pandarus's simultaneous identification with the go-between tradition's contradictory ideologies of desire, Chaucer suspends Troilus and Criseyde's story irreconcilably between lust and idealized romantic love."--Jacket.

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