Our Host's "Triacle": Some Observations on Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale."

Author / Editor
Elliott, Ralph W. V.

Title
Our Host's "Triacle": Some Observations on Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale."

Published
Review of English Literature 7.2 (1966): 63-71.

Description
Questions some of critics' claims about the Pardoner (particularly rejecting the claim that he is drunk), and argues that the Pardoner's character and his performance cohere and exhibit his "craft and talent" as well as his efforts "to entertain and impress the pilgrims and to work towards the practical joke against the Host."

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale