Fruitfulness and Sterility in the 'Physician's' and 'Pardoner's Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Amoils, E. R.
Fruitfulness and Sterility in the 'Physician's' and 'Pardoner's Tales'
- Published
- English Studies in Africa 17 (1974): 17-37.
- Description
- Explores the complementary thematic interconnections of PhyT and PardPT (integrity and fraudulence, spiritual fertility and sterility, virtue and vice, defeat of death), reading their interdependence in light of ParsT and the section of the "Roman de la Rose" that underlies their juxtaposition in Part 6 of CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Parson and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations