Audience and Exempla in the 'Pardoner's Prologue' and 'Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Luengo, Anthony E.
Audience and Exempla in the 'Pardoner's Prologue' and 'Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 11 (1976): 1-10.
- Description
- The form and style of the Pardoner's sermon are affected by its two audiences. The moral tale is related for the benefit of the Pilgrims; the "ensamples" (the brief Biblical stories against various sins) are for the "lewed people" in his rustic audiences.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.