The Plague and Chaucer's Pardoner

Author / Editor
Beidler, Peter G.

Title
The Plague and Chaucer's Pardoner

Published
Chaucer Review 16 (1982): 257-69.

Description
Only Chaucer places the story of the rioters' search for gold in plague time. The article examines the implications of the plague setting and the plague in literature to explain Chaucer's choice of plague setting.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.