The Pardoner's Tale: Morality and Its Context

Author / Editor
Lawton, D. A.

Title
The Pardoner's Tale: Morality and Its Context

Published
G. A. Wilkes and A. P. Riemer, eds. Studies in Chaucer. (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1981), pp. 38-63.

Description
Explicates PardT with a concern for the division between the tale proper (lines 463-903) and its frame. The tale is structurally a digression, theologically orthodox, but unconvenional in "tone," and is to be taken seriously.

Alternative Title
Studies in Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.