'I Wol No Lenger Pleye with Thee': Chaucer's Rejection of the Pardoner

Author / Editor
Moore, Bruce.

Title
'I Wol No Lenger Pleye with Thee': Chaucer's Rejection of the Pardoner

Published
Parergon 14 (1976): 52-62.

Description
The Pardoner obsessively flaunts his unwholesome nature, manifesting hypnotic control and power. His picture of the Old Man, and his subsequent affronting of the Host augment his disturbing self-characterization and lead the pilgrims and author to dismiss him abruptly.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.