Chaucer's Pardoner and the Progress of Criticism
- Author / Editor
- Halverson, John.
Chaucer's Pardoner and the Progress of Criticism
- Published
- Chaucer Review 4.3 (1970): 184-202.
- Description
- Surveys and summarizes critical assessments of Chaucer's Pardoner and PardPT from ca. 1940-1970, observing trends and emphases. Then offers a reading of the Pardoner as an extravagant "put-on" who deliberately creates an outrageous personality for his audience, but misjudges the Host and reveals his own obsession with death.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale