The Tale Outside the Tale: The Pardoner and the Host
- Author / Editor
- Read, Michael.
The Tale Outside the Tale: The Pardoner and the Host
- Published
- Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale (Harlow: Longman, 1990), pp. 55-64.
- Description
- Explores the psychological realism of the conflict at the end of PardT between the Host, a "bully" who rejects the power of language, and the Pardoner, a "conscious artist" who has attacked the Host's "coarse masculinity." Ironically, the Host's words effectively silence the Pardoner.
- Alternative Title
- Critical Essays on The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale