Substance, Accident, and Transformations: A Reading of the 'Pardoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Stevens, Martin,and Kathleen Fahey.

Title
Substance, Accident, and Transformations: A Reading of the 'Pardoner's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 17 (1982): 142-58.

Description
Readers frequently imagine the Pardoner to be a real person. He is, of course, Chaucer's fiction, and the poet shows his mastery of narrative by combining the "Prologue" and the "Tale," underscoring the unity of the two by iterative imagery, especially of transformations, eating and drinking,and decomposition.

Contributor
Fahey, Kathleen.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.