The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale: Sermon and "Fabliau."

Author / Editor
Owen, Nancy H.

Title
The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale: Sermon and "Fabliau."

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 66 (1967): 541-49.

Description
Discusses PardPT as a "dramatic monologue, in the form of a sermon," set within a "'fabliau' framework." Identifies the various parts of the sermon structure and explains similarities between the "framework" and Chaucer's other fabliaux, particularly the "victimization of an unworthy."

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale