The Tortured Pardoner.

Author / Editor
Duino, Richard.

Title
The Tortured Pardoner.

Published
English Journal 46 (1957): 320-25, 365.

Description
Provides "some scholarly background information" about the Pardoner intended for teachers of high school senior English classes, summarizing studies by Tupper, Kittredge, Curry, and Patch, and focusing on why Chaucer may have invested this Canterbury pilgrim "with characteristics of sexual abnormality."

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale