The Pardoner in Canterbury: Class, Gender, and Urban Space in the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn
- Author / Editor
- Sturges, Robert S.
The Pardoner in Canterbury: Class, Gender, and Urban Space in the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn
- Published
- College Literature 33 (2006): 52-76.
- Description
- Sturges assesses the Pardoner and Kit from the Prologue to Beryn as "comic critiques" of fifteenth-century urban concerns about class and gender. Three metaphors define urban space in the narrative: cathedral, walls, and tavern.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.
- Pardoner and His Tale.