Justice in the 'Physician's Tale' and the 'Pardoner's Tale': A Dialogic Contrast

Author / Editor
Lee, Brian S.

Title
Justice in the 'Physician's Tale' and the 'Pardoner's Tale': A Dialogic Contrast

Published
Chaucer Yearbook 4 (1997): 21-32.

Description
A Bakhtinian approach to the juxtaposition of PhyT and PardT. In its aloof style and its paralleling of Apius and Virginius, PhyT is marked by a "tendency to monologue." PardT is dialogic in its comic replacement of justice with mercy.

Chaucer Subjects
Physician and His Tale.
Pardoner and His Tale.