'The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale'--Poetry for Performance
- Author / Editor
- Smith, Richard.
'The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale'--Poetry for Performance
- Published
- Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale (Harlow: Longman, 1990), pp. 18-28.
- Description
- Reiterates that all of Chaucer's poetry was written to be read aloud, and argues that PardT in particular "cries out for dramatic reading," identifying its several features that invite performance, including its "showy" rhetoric, its "theatrical" devices, and its range of inscribed "voices."
- Alternative Title
- Critical Essays on The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Style and Versification