Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue, 444-447.
- Author / Editor
- Pratt, Robert A.
Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue, 444-447.
- Published
- Explicator 21.2 (1962): item 14.
- Description
- Suggests that Jerome's "Ad Rusticum Monachum" (125:11) is the ultimate source of the linking of "baskettes" and the apostles in PardP 6.444-47, and aligns the Pardoner with the Wife of Bath through their shared anti-asceticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Wife of Bath and Her Tale