Life without Death: The Old Man in Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Hatcher, Elizabeth.
Life without Death: The Old Man in Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 9 (1975): 246-52.
- Description
- The Old Man of PardT, wretched because of his inability to die, embodies a lesson of "contemptus mundi" that should correct the rioters' "rash wish" to overcome physical death,but due to their spiritual blindness, they fail to heed his warning.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.