'Make a Mark That Shows': Orphean Song, Orphean Sexuality, and the Exile of Chaucer's Pardoner

Author / Editor
Calabrese, Michael A.

Title
'Make a Mark That Shows': Orphean Song, Orphean Sexuality, and the Exile of Chaucer's Pardoner

Published
Viator 24 (1993): 269-86.

Description
Genius's discourse on Orpheus in Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose" provides a vocabulary with which to address the sexuality of Chaucer's Pardoner. Genius's views on language, law, homosexuality, and art illuminate similar issues in PardT, linking procreation and writing.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.