Chaucer's Pardoner: His Sexuality and Modern Critics
- Author / Editor
- Benson, C. David.
Chaucer's Pardoner: His Sexuality and Modern Critics
- Published
- Mediaevalia 8 (1985 for 1982): 337-49
- Description
- The Pardoner should be read not as a real person but as an allegorical figure. Modern discussions overemphasize the Pardoner's sexuality and distort the fact that hints about his sexuality prepare for the more important concern with his ecclesiastical abuses. The Prologue to the "Tale of Beryn" indicates that the Pardoner was a womanizer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Chaucerian Apocrypha