Claiming the Pardoner: Toward a Gay Reading of Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale

Author / Editor
Kruger, Steven F.

Title
Claiming the Pardoner: Toward a Gay Reading of Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale

Published
Exemplaria 6 (1994): 115-39.

Description
Through a historically situated investigation of the Pardoner's possible homeosexuality and its relation to language in PardPT, modern readers can resist Chaucer's (possibly) homophobic intentions, reclaiming and even celebrating the Pardoner's disruption of the heterosexual constructions of medeival society.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.