Conscious Verbal Repetition in the Pardoner's "Prologue."

Author / Editor
Gross, Seymour L.

Title
Conscious Verbal Repetition in the Pardoner's "Prologue."

Published
Notes and Queries 198 (1953): 413-14.

Description
Suggests that the repeated emphasis on the motive of covetousness in PardP is intended as the "revenge of irony" by the Pardoner, a response to the other pilgrims' negative opinion of him.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale