Confusion and Concealment in 'The Pardoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Oliver, Paul.

Title
Confusion and Concealment in 'The Pardoner's Tale'

Published
Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale (Harlow: Longman, 1990), pp. 65-74.

Description
Both PardP and PardT are "self-exposure" on the part of the Pardoner, although in the latter he is "unaware" of his similarity to the three rioters: "all four are spiritually dead . . . blasphemers and motivated by avarice . . . totally hardened sinners."

Alternative Title
Critical Essays on The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale