On the Use of the Old Man Figure in a Medieval and a Renaissance Text

Author / Editor
Fraga Fuentes, María Amelia.

Title
On the Use of the Old Man Figure in a Medieval and a Renaissance Text

Published
SELIM 9 : 79-90, 1999.

Description
Compares the figures of the Old Man in PardT and Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus," arguing that each represents the "Christian paradox of moral strength manifesting itself in physical weakness."

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.