The Topical Hypocrisy of Chaucer's Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Fletcher, Alan J.
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.