Chaucer's Palimpsest: Judas Iscariot and 'The Pardoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Braswell, Mary Flowers.
Chaucer's Palimpsest: Judas Iscariot and 'The Pardoner's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 29 (1995): 303-10.
- Description
- Certain details of PardT, a story of "brotherhood and betrayal," suggest old stories of Judas Iscariot, the consummate betrayer.
- The theme of avarice, the inability to die, the oak tree, the treasure up the "croked wey," and the "last supper" all have parallels in art, architecture, and apocryphal texts concerning Judas.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.