Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale, 855-58

Author / Editor
Reiff, Raychel Haugrud.

Title
Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale, 855-58

Published
Explicator 57.4: 195-97, 1999.

Description
In PardT, the youngest thief's use of "capouns" rather than "hennes" or "coks" functions both realistically, as an indicator of the value of the chickens, and symbolically, as a reminder of the sterility of the Pardoner.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.
Language and Word Studies.