'Dronkenesse Is Ful of Stryvyng' : Alcoholism and Ritual Violence in Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Bowers, John M.
'Dronkenesse Is Ful of Stryvyng' : Alcoholism and Ritual Violence in Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale'
- Published
- ELH 57 (1990): 757-84.
- Description
- Medical and psychological insights confirm alcoholism as the Pardoner's root problem. Heavy long-term indulgence has left him unable to function without drink; he is alienated, impotent, resentful, and eloquent in preaching yet mute under attack. The Host seeks to make him an unholy scapegoat.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.