The Serpent and the Sting in the 'Pardoner's Prologue and Tale'

Author / Editor
Noll, Dolores L.

Title
The Serpent and the Sting in the 'Pardoner's Prologue and Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 17 (1982): 159-62.

Description
Allusions to serpent and sting intensify the irony of the Pardoner's posture as preacher. The imagery is further complicated and intensified by the natural association readers make with the Pauline passage on the sting of death.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.