Silent Retribution in Chaucer: The Merchant's Tale, the Reeve's Tale, and the Pardoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Borroff, Marie.
Silent Retribution in Chaucer: The Merchant's Tale, the Reeve's Tale, and the Pardoner's Tale
- Published
- Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, The Gawain-Poet, and Beyond (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 2003), pp. 50-70.
- Description
- Clearly implied but not stated, May's pregnancy in MerT results from having sex with Damian and helps to punish January's foolishness. In similarly covert ways, the parson of RvT is punished by the pregnancy of Malyne, and all pardoners are criticized through the Host's response at the end of PardT. Such covert meanings indicate Chaucer's sympathies with Wycliffite thought.
- Alternative Title
- Traditions and Renewals
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.