The Old Man in 'The Pardoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Sato, Noriko.

Title
The Old Man in 'The Pardoner's Tale'

Published
Thought Currents in English Literature (Tokyo) 54 (1981): 11-36.

Description
The Old Man in PardT represents a fusion of divine force with the sense of futility and remorse that accompany physical aging--a motif found in medieval lyrics, Villon, and in later writers.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.