Reexamination of Chaucer's Old Man of the "Pardoner's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Schmidt, Philip.
Reexamination of Chaucer's Old Man of the "Pardoner's Tale."
- Published
- Southern Folklore Quarterly 30 (1966): 249-55.
- Description
- Considers theories of the nature of the Old Man in PardT, suggesting that he might be thought to combine feature of the Good Angel and the Bad Angel of medieval mystery and morality plays insofar as he seems to be "extra-human," advising and endangering the rioters simultaneously.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations