The Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Lester, Geoffrey, ed.
The Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Published
- Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1987.
- Physical Description
- viii, 88 pp.
- Series
- Macmillan Master Guides
- Description
- Study guide to PardPT and to the GP description of the Pardoner that first summarizes Chaucer's biography, his language (including a list of "difficult or confusable words") and writings, and his literary context. Includes a summary/commentary on the Pardoner materials, arranged in narrative segments, followed by discussion of their themes, sources, and techniques, including irony. Closes with specimen passages in Middle English (with additional commentary), a brief description of critical approaches, and study questions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale