'The Pardoner's Tale,' the Pervert, and the Price of Order in Chaucer's World
- Author / Editor
- Frantzen, Allen J.
'The Pardoner's Tale,' the Pervert, and the Price of Order in Chaucer's World
- Published
- Britton J. Harwood and Gillian R. Overing, eds. Class and Gender in Early English Literature: Intersections (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), pp. 131-48.
- Description
- Through his sexual ambiguity and his exposure of the illusory nature of social hierarchy, the Pardoner is a "double threat." Through him, Chaucer "provisionally negates" the model of the three estates and also "demonstrates, through the fates of the three men and the Pardoner himself, the gratuitous but deeply satisfying destruction of those who depart from the order it dictates."
- Alternative Title
- Class and Gender in Early English Literature: Intersections.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.