The Topical Hypocrisy of Chaucer's Pardoner

Author / Editor
Fletcher, Alan J.

Title
The Topical Hypocrisy of Chaucer's Pardoner

Published
Chaucer Review 25 (1990): 110-26.

Description
Religious hypocrisy, so crucially the key to the Pardoner's success, had for a London audience of the 1390s an urgent topicality.
Revised in Alan J. Fletcher, Preaching, Politics, and Poetry in Late-Medieval England (Dublin: Four Courts, 1998).

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.