Carnival Laughter in the 'Pardoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Masri, Heather.

Title
Carnival Laughter in the 'Pardoner's Tale'

Published
Medieval Perspectives 10 (1995-96): 148-56.

Description
Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of carnival and a comparison with fifteenth-century drama suggest that pilgrims' laughter is ambivalent and arises from engagement with paradox. The Pardoner's "quete" invites simultaneous complicity and disdain.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.