The Pardoner and the Second Nun: A Defense of the Bradshaw Order

Author / Editor
Wilson, James H.

Title
The Pardoner and the Second Nun: A Defense of the Bradshaw Order

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 74 (1973): 292-96.

Description
Argues that the theme of idleness and the triads of characters in PardT and SNT encourage us to read these tales in sequence--a feature of the ordering of the fragments of CT proposed by Henry Bradshaw.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Pardoner and His Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale
Manuscripts and Textual Studies