Chaucer's Toxicology
- Author / Editor
- Ireland, Richard W.
Chaucer's Toxicology
- Published
- Chaucer Review 29 (1994): 74-92.
- Description
- Chaucer's use of poison in PardT and ParsT indicates more than a cursory knowledge of the law and lore associated with it. In PardT, poison--affiliated with Envy and Jealousy and with the devil--serves to darken both the characters and the plot line. The Parson's use of poison--associated with contraception and abortion--reveals a tension between contemporary civil and common laws.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Parson and His Tale.