The Astonishing Performance of Chaucer's Pardoner.
- Author / Editor
- McNamara, Leo F.
The Astonishing Performance of Chaucer's Pardoner.
- Published
- Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 46 (1961): 231-37.
- Description
- Rejects the "drunkenness hypothesis" as a way of explaining the Pardoner's character, arguing that pride and "counterfeit humility" underlie the characterization and that the "[s]uspicion, aversion, and contempt" of the pilgrim audience toward him provoke his vain "stance of flattery and accommodation" toward them.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale