Foreswearing in Chaucer's 'Pardoner's' and 'Franklin's Tales': A Recurring Motif of Tale and Teller
- Author / Editor
- Jost, Jean E.
Foreswearing in Chaucer's 'Pardoner's' and 'Franklin's Tales': A Recurring Motif of Tale and Teller
- Published
- Medieval Perspectives 1 (1986): 75-88.
- Description
- Chaucer uses a medieval commonplace--vowing--as a function of genre: tragedy, comedy, or fabliau. In PardT, fashioning an illegitimate triple vow to eradicate Death, and bound by sworn brotherhood, three hoodlums effect upon themselves a grim, appropriate disaster. In a joyful comic resolution, the Franklin eradicates the foolish highpriced vows for his none-too-wise but good-willed characters.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.