Chaucer's Perplexing Pardoner.

Author / Editor
Stewart, Donald C.

Title
Chaucer's Perplexing Pardoner.

Published
CEA Critic 29.3 (1966): 1, 4-6.

Description
Suggests that interpretations of the Pardoner are overwrought, arguing that he acts "perfectly in the character given him by his creator" and that his somewhat troubling offer of relics to the Host is best understood as a joke.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale