'So was thys castell layd wyde open': Battles for the Phallus in Early Modern Responses to Chaucer's Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Sturges, Robert S.
'So was thys castell layd wyde open': Battles for the Phallus in Early Modern Responses to Chaucer's Pardoner
- Published
- Jessica Munns and Penny Richards, eds. Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe (Harlow, U.K.: Pearson/Longman, 2003), pp. 40-54.
- Description
- Focuses on John Heywood's "The Foure PP" and on the "Tale of Beryn" for their uses of the figure of the "Chaucerian Pardoner" and his "irreducible ambiguity" as a means to explore the "rule of the phallus" and the ways that each of the two texts "situate its gender disruptions in a context of power relations" appropriate to its own historical period.
- Contributor
- Munns, Jessica, ed.
- Richards, Penny, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Chaucerian Apocrypha