The Pardoner Veiled and Unveiled
- Author / Editor
- Sturges, Robert S.
The Pardoner Veiled and Unveiled
- Published
- Jeffrey Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler, eds. Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (New York and London: Garland, 1997), pp. 261-77.
- Description
- Provides Freudian and Lacanian analysis of two references to veils in the GP sketch of the Pardoner and the Host's threat at the end of PardT. The Pardoner's vernicle signifies his collusion with masculinist equations of penis and word, while his other veil indicates that masculinity is "only a role, never achieved but only assumed."
- Alternative Title
- Becoming Male in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.