The Chaucer Chest and the Pardoner's Tale : Didacticism in Narrative Art
- Author / Editor
- Whitaker, Muriel A.
The Chaucer Chest and the Pardoner's Tale : Didacticism in Narrative Art
- Published
- Chaucer Review 34: 174-89, 1999.
- Description
- Did Chaucer commission the chest in the London Museum with scenes from PardT? The poet could have supervised its adherence to the literary source and added the hunting fox as a symbol for the Pardoner. He might have chosen the cheaper elm rather than a more expensive wood, and he would have appreciated the irony of keeping coins in a box that expressly condemned cupidity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Life.