Doing What Comes Naturally : The 'Physician's Tale' and the Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Burger, Glenn.
Doing What Comes Naturally : The 'Physician's Tale' and the Pardoner
- Published
- Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 117-30.
- Description
- The actions of the Host and the Pardoner in fragment 6 connect PhyT and PardT and their respective tellers, bringing "the male body into view to an extent not seen elsewhere" in CT.
- The fragment's representation of gendered bodies sheds "the harshest possible light [on] the oppressive force of the essentialized gender system lying behind medieval politics."
- Alternative Title
- Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Physician and His Tale.