'They shul desiren to dye, and deeth shal flee fro hem': A Reconsideration of the Pardoner's Old Man
- Author / Editor
- Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey.
'They shul desiren to dye, and deeth shal flee fro hem': A Reconsideration of the Pardoner's Old Man
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 84 (1983): 367-71.
- Description
- The Old Man's significance depends on audience reaction, not on learned traditions; readers and pilgrims might easily associate him with the Green Yeoman of the FrT, for he too "seems to be a devil wandering the earth in search of prey."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.