'The Pardoner's Tale': An Early Moral Play?

Author / Editor
Neuss, Paula.

Title
'The Pardoner's Tale': An Early Moral Play?

Published
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Religion in the Poetry and Drama of the Late Middle Ages in England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), no. 57), pp. 119-32.

Description
Chaucer's PardT "anticipates, and/or possibly draws on, the techniques and devices of the English moral play." CT is a "play" or game, and PardT is in effect "an early moral play." A "ful 'vicious' man," the Pardoner himself is a vice.

Alternative Title
Religion in the Poetry and Drama of the Late Middle Ages in England.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.