Chaucer's Pardoner: The Death of a Salesman

Author / Editor
Pearsall, Derek.

Title
Chaucer's Pardoner: The Death of a Salesman

Published
Chaucer Review 17 (1983): 358-65.

Description
An automaton "who is both theologically and in ordinary human terms...dead," the Pardoner, whose sexuality emphasizes his deadness, may yet be redeemed in the words of the Old Man.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.