Chaucer's Game in the Pardoner's Tale

Author / Editor
Dillon, Janette.

Title
Chaucer's Game in the Pardoner's Tale

Published
Essays in Criticism 41 (1991): 208-21.

Description
The discrepancy between the vice of the teller and the moral of his tale requires the pilgrim audience to revise and postpone its judgment and thus to contribute to the meaning of the exemplum.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.