The Pardoner's Ale and Cake.
- Author / Editor
- Nichols, Robert E., Jr.
The Pardoner's Ale and Cake.
- Published
- PMLA 82 (1967): 498-504.
- Description
- Argues that the reference to ale and cake in PardP (6.321-22) is a "device operating on three levels": 1) creating cohesion in PardPT; 2) introducing the theme of gluttony; and 3) reinforcing the irony of the portrait of the Pardoner through a Eucharist motif.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale