Cathedral, Inn, and Pardoner in the Prologue to the 'Tale of Beryn'
- Author / Editor
- Jonassen, Frederick B.
Cathedral, Inn, and Pardoner in the Prologue to the 'Tale of Beryn'
- Published
- Fifteenth-Century Studies 18 (1991): 109-32.
- Description
- The "Beryn" poet defuses the moral menace of Chaucer's Pardoner. The Pardoner in "Beryn" is more of a fool than a threat to either the Inn or the Cathedral, the symbolic "poles" of the pilgrimage.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.
- Pardoner and His Tale.