The Pardoner and His "Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Lavezzo, Kathy.
The Pardoner and His "Tale."
- Published
- Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 166-77.
- Description
- Catalogues the contours of criticism of the Pardoner in PardT, including critical praise of the tale’s alleged “superiority as a tale.” Argues that the pilgrims' revulsion toward the Pardoner is rooted in his homosexual identity, which is connected to performance of his tale.
- Alternative Title
- Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale