The Body and Its Politics in the "Pardoner's Tale."

Author / Editor
Zarins, Kim.

Title
The Body and Its Politics in the "Pardoner's Tale."

Published
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017.

Physical Description
[12 pp.]

Description
Cautions that what we say about the Pardoner's body "might say something about ourselves"; summarizes critical discussion of the Pardoner's sex, sexuality, and rhetoric; and comments on the Old Man, Death (compared to Terry Pratchett's Mort), the Host's response to the Pardoner, and the Pardoner's silence. Includes several classroom projects and questions for discussion.

Alternative Title
The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale