Structural Meaning in 'The Pardoner's Tale' and 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Bolton, W. F.
Structural Meaning in 'The Pardoner's Tale' and 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- Language and Style 11 (1978): 201-11.
- Description
- The Pardoner, making, through structure, game of his tale's morality and morality of its game, wishes the Pilgrims to play gullible churchgoers and to depose the Host, who rebuffs him. NPT's structure reveals covert anti-feminism manifesting the Confessor's superiority over the Prioress, who like Pertelore listens to lower reason.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.