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Medieval Go-Betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus

GRETCHEN MIESZKOWSKI, Medieval Go-Betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus. New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. x, 218. isbn: 1-403906341-x. $69.95.

In this lucid study, Gretchen Mieszkowski traces the literary traditions of the gobetween that influence Chaucer's representation of Pandarus in Troilus and Criseyde. By drawing upon a variety of sources, from Latin comedy, to chivalric romance, to Old French fabliau, Mieszkowski amply demonstrates the deep literary roots of the tradition Chaucer engages with his go-between. From the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, Mieszkowski finds two distinct forms of go-between stories: that which furthers idealized love, and that which ...

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