Chaucer's Pardoner Again

Author / Editor
Currie, Felicity.

Title
Chaucer's Pardoner Again

Published
Leeds Studies in English 4 (1970): 11-22.

Description
Gauges the Pardoner's attitude toward his Canterbury audience, including the Host. In PardP, he reveals how he usually treats his audiences, then insults the pilgrims by leveling differences in PardT. Like Faus Semblant of the "Roman de la Rose," the Pardoner is a hypocrite, but his techniques effectively capture the pilgrims and the reading audience in moral ironies.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations